Paul Erdős was a Hungarian mathematician. He was one of the most prolific mathematicians and producers of mathematical conjectures of the 20th century. Erdős pursued and proposed problems in discrete
Erdős in 1992
Counter-clockwise from left: Erdős, Fan Chung, and her husband Ronald Graham, Japan 1986
Erdős explains a problem to Terence Tao, who was 10 years old at the time (1985).
Grave of Erdős, Kozma Street Cemetery, Budapest
Lipót Fejér was a Hungarian mathematician.
Paul Erdős
…20, Erdős had found a proof for Bertrand's postulate. In 1934, at the age of 21, he was awarded a doctorate in mathematics. Erdős's thesis advisor was Lipót Fejér, who was also the thesis advisor for John von Neumann, George Pólya, and Pál Turán. In 1934, Erdős took up a post-doctoral fellowship at Victoria…
Lipót Fejér (standing to the right), with Greek mathematician Constantin Carathéodory (1873–1950; left)
(Left to right); Standing: Frigyes Riesz, Béla Kerékjártó, Alfréd Haar, Gyula Kőnig, Rudolf Ortvay [hu]; On chairs: József Kürschák, George David Birkhoff, O.D. Kellog, Lipót Fejér; Sitting on the floor: Tibor Radó, István Lipka [hu], László Kalmár, Pál Szász [hu]
Fejér's grave in Kerepesi Cemetery, Budapest