When he said someone had 'died", Erdős meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone ha — Paul Hoffman, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
When he said someone had 'died", Erdős meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone ha — Paul Hoffman, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
When he said someone had 'died", Erdős meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone ha — Paul Hoffman, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
When he said someone had 'died", Erdős meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone ha — Paul Hoffman, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
When he said someone had 'died", Erdős meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone ha — Paul Hoffman, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
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When he said someone had 'died", Erdős meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had "left", the person had died.

— Paul Hoffman, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
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