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Re: SCUBA-SE Digest - 24 Mar 2004 to 25 Mar 2004 (#2004-79)
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Bjorn Vang Jensen <[log in to unmask]>
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SCUBA or ELSE! Diver's forum <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 28 Mar 2004 18:05:42 +0800
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Reef Fish wrote:

> Erdos is a famous mathematicians who is a mathematics idiot-savant
> and has published and co-published thousands of papers.  Very
> interesting character -- but that's another story.

Past tense now. He died in 1996, according to my copy of "The Man Who Loved
Only Numbers", a gripping read about this bizarre man.

Bjorn

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