The Mathematics of Paul Erdős II

Synopsis

This is the most comprehensive survey of the mathematical life of the legendary Paul Erdős (1913-1996), one of the most versatile and prolific mathematicians of our time. For the first time, all the main areas of Erdős' research are covered in a single project. Because of overwhelming response from the mathematical community, the project now occupies over 1000 pages, arranged into two volumes. These volumes contain both high level research articles as well as key articles that survey some of the cornerstones of Erdős' work, each written by a leading world specialist in the field. A special chapter "Early Days", rare photographs, and art related to Erdős complement this striking collection. A unique contribution is the bibliography on Erdős' publications: the most comprehensive ever published. This new edition, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Paul Erdős' birth, contains updates on many of the articles from the two volumes of the first edition, several new articles from prominent mathematicians, a new introduction, and more biographical information about Paul Erdős with an updated list of publications.The second volume contains chapters on graph theory and combinatorics, extremal and Ramsey theory, and a section on infinity that covers Erdős' research on set theory. All of these chapters are essentially updated, particularly the extremal theory chapter that contains a survey of flag algebras, a new technique for solving extremal problems.

Book details

Edition:

2nd ed. 2013

Author:

Ronald L. Graham, Jaroslav Nešetřil and Steve Butler

ISBN:

9781461472544

Related ISBNs:

9781461472537

Publisher:

Springer New York

Pages:

N/A

Reading age:

Not specified

Includes images:

Yes

Date of addition:

2021-02-26

Usage restrictions:

Copyright

Copyright date:

2013

Copyright by:

Springer Science+Business Media New York 

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Categories:

Mathematics and Statistics, Nonfiction, Philosophy