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Paul Erdős was a giant of twentieth century mathematics. Born in 1913 he was a child prodigy whose talents were well cultivated in his native Budapest. Dubbed Der Zauberer von Budapest he moved onto the world stage in his early 20s. And there he stayed, extraordinarily active right until his death in 1996.
A version of this article was first published by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications ( www.ima.org.uk ) in ‘Mathematics Today’, February 2013
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Spencer, J. (2013). Erdős Magic. In: Graham, R., Nešetřil, J., Butler, S. (eds) The Mathematics of Paul Erdős I. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7258-2_2
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