Essay on the life of Paul Erdos

Title: Essay on the life of Paul Erdos
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Essay on the life of Paul Erdos
Paul Erdos (air-DISH) Paul Erdos was born in Budapest, Hungary on March 26, 1913. His two sisters died right before he was born, so his parents were extra cautious. At age 3, he was multiplying 3- digit numbers in his head and at age 4 he learned about negative numbers- he told his mother that 100-250= -150. Erdos was very eccentric- he never had a checkbook, a credit card; he never learned how to drive, and he never had …showed first 75 words of 474 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 474 total…was explained, Erdos got a permanent FBI record. Some other interesting facts about Erdos include the fact that he had a rare, undiagnosed skin condition and so all of his clothes were silk, since everything else aggravated the condition. He also didn't like it when people touched him, so he didn't shake hands with people. He washed his hands 50 times a day, according to his cousin. Erdos died at a convention in 1996, in Warsaw, Poland.

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