Citas de Paul Erdos

• Un matemático es un aparato para convertir el café en teoremas.

  Paul Erdos

  Witty, Humorous, Coffee

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• ¿Por qué son bellos los números? Es como preguntar por qué es bella la Novena Sinfonía de Beethoven.
  Si no ves por qué, alguien no puede decírtelo. Sé que los números son hermosos.
  Si no son hermosos, nada lo es.

  Paul Erdos

  Beautiful, Education, Math

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• It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time.

  Paul Erdos

  Mind, Enough, Should

  "My Brain Is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos". Book by Bruce Schechter, 1998.

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• The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.

  Paul Erdos

  Purpose, Life Is, Mathematics

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• Puede que Dios no juegue a los dados con el universo, pero algo extraño ocurre con los números primos.

  Paul Erdos

  Play, Numbers, May

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• There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.

  Paul Erdos

  Graves, Plenty

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• Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue five. We could marshal the world's best minds and fastest computers, and within a year we could probably calculate the value. If the aliens demanded the Ramsey number for red six and blue six, however, we would have no choice but to launch a preemptive attack.

  Paul Erdos

  Years, Numbers, Blue

  "Ramsey Theory". Ronald L. Graham and Joel H. Spencer, "Scientific American", July 1990.

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• It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.

  Paul Erdos

  Teaching, Math, Years

  "The indivisible man" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2003.

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• There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.

  Paul Erdos

  Men, Three, Firsts

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• Finally I am becoming stupider no more.

  Paul Erdos

  Badass, Becoming

  "Variety in Religion and Science: Daily Reflections". Book by Varadaraja Raman, June 2005.

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• You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.

  Paul Erdos

  Believe, Book, Believe In God

  "In Search of God's Mathematical Perfect Proofs" by Erica Klarreich, www.wired.com. March 24, 2018.

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• La televisión es algo que inventaron los rusos para destruir la educación estadounidense.

  Paul Erdos

  Eyebrows, Television, American Education

  "Comic Sections: The Book of Mathematical Jokes, Humour, Wit, and Wisdom". Book by Des MacHale, 1993.

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• Another roof, another proof.

  Paul Erdos

  Collaboration, Proof, Roof

  "A Tribute to Paul Erdos". Book edited by Alan Baker, Bela Bollobas and Andras Hajnal, December 13, 1990.

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• Sé que los números son hermosos. Si no son hermosos, nada lo es.

  Paul Erdos

  Beautiful, Math, Numbers

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• I'll tell you once, and I'll tell you again. There's always a prime between n and 2n.

  Paul Erdos

  Math, Prime, You Again

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• Property is a nuisance.

  Paul Erdos

  Nuisance, Property

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• Here I am: My brain is open.

  Paul Erdos

  Here I Am, Brain

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• When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So that makes me two and a half billion.

  Paul Erdos

  Education, Children, Math

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• God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here.

  Paul Erdos

  Beautiful, Book, Math

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• Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten

  Paul Erdos

  Discovery, Way, Forgotten

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• The SF [Supreme Fascist, i.e. God] created us to enjoy our suffering. The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans.

  Paul Erdos

  Suffering, Fascists, Enjoy

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• Toda actividad humana, buena o mala, excepto las matemáticas, debe llegar a su fin.

  Paul Erdos

  Education, Science, Mathematics

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• Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance.

  Paul Erdos

  Nuisance, Said, Theft

  "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth". Book by Paul Hoffman, 1998.

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• Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.

  Paul Erdos

  Math, Problem, Ready

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• God created two acts of folly. First, He created the Universe in a Big Bang. Second, He was negligent enough to leave behind evidence for this act, in the form of microwave radiation.

  Paul Erdos

  Two, Bangs, Radiation

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