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During his university years he and other young Jewish mathematicians, who called themselves the Anonymous group, championed a fledgling branch of mathematics called Ramsey theory , which has as its philosophical underpinning the idea that complete disorder is impossible. A concrete example is the random scattering of points on a plane a flat surface. The Ramsey theorist conjectures that no matter how haphazard the scattering appears, certain patterns and configurations of points must emerge.

In September he emigrated to the United States, accepting a one-year appointment at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey , where he cofounded the field of probabilistic number theory.

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During the s he wandered around the United States from one university to the next—Purdue, Stanford, Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins—spurning full-time job offers so that he would have the freedom to work with anyone at any time on any problem of his choice. Thus began half a century of nomadic existence that would make him a legend in the mathematics community. With no home, no wife, and no job to tie him down, his wanderlust took him to Israel , China, Australia, and 22 other countries although sometimes he was turned away at the border—during the Cold War , Hungary feared he was an American spy, and the United States feared he was a communist spy.

His enthusiasm was infectious. He turned mathematics into a social activity, encouraging his most hermetic colleagues to work together.

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The collective goal, he said, was to reveal the pages in the S. During the next three decades he continued to do important work in combinatorics, partition theory, set theory , number theory, and geometry —the diversity of the fields he worked in was unusual.

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For the first time, all the main areas of Erdos' research are covered in a single project. Because of overwhelming response from the mathematical community, the project now occupies over 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 Erdos' work, each written by a leading world specialist in the field. A special chapter Early Days , rare photographs, and art related to Erdos complement this striking collection.

A unique contribution is the bibliography on Erdos' publications: This new edition, dedicated to the th anniversary of Paul Erdos' 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, more biographical information about Paul Erdos, and an updated list of publications.

The first volume contains the unique chapter Early Days , which features personal memories of Paul Erdos by a number of his colleagues.

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The other three chapters cover number theory, random methods, and geometry. All of these chapters are essentially updated, most notably the geometry chapter that covers the recent solution of the problem on the number of distinct distances in finite planar sets, which was the most popular of Erdos' favorite geometry problems.

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