Paul Erdős: advisors and students

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Paul Erdős

Hungarian mathematician1913 to 1996

Wikidata names Lipót Fejér as doctoral advisor, lists 6 doctoral students, and lists 3 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 9 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Lipót Fejér

Students on Wikidata6

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Géza Fodor
born 1927
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Joseph Kruskal
born 1928
stated by Wikidata
Béla Bollobás
born 1943
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George B. Purdy
born 1944
stated by Wikidata
Alexander Soifer
born 1948
stated by Wikidata
Bonifac Vazahabe Donat

Taught3

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
George B. Purdy
born 1944
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Alexander Soifer
born 1948
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Terence Tao
born 1975

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataLipót Fejér
2 steps up
stated by WikidataHermann Schwarz
3 steps up
stated by WikidataErnst Kummerstated by WikidataKarl Weierstraß
4 steps up
stated by WikidataChristoph Gudermannstated by WikidataHeinrich Scherk

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 190 people: 190 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

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Über die Primzahlen gewisser arithmetischer Reihen
doctoral thesis, stated by Wikidata

Education and career7

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

1926 to 1930
Saint Stephen High School
studied
1930 to 1934
Eötvös Loránd University
studied
1934 to 1938
Victoria University of Manchester
worked
1938 to 1940
Institute for Advanced Study
worked
1943 to 1945
Purdue University
worked
1952 to 1954
University of Notre Dame
worked
1954 to 1996
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
worked

At a glance

known as: mathematician, university teacher
fields: probability theory, combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, set theory, real analysis, geometry, mathematic, discrete mathematics, mathematical analysis
degrees: Doctor
awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, 1945, Cole Prize in Number Theory, 1951, Kossuth Prize, 1958, Wolf Prize in Mathematics, 1983, honorary doctor of the University of Limoges, 1986, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 1989, honorary doctor of the Charles University of Prague, 1992, honorary doctorate of Haifa University, 1994
member of: Royal Society of London, 1989, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1956 to 1962, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, from 1980, Polish Academy of Sciences
notable works: Copeland–Erdős constant, Cameron–Erdős conjecture, De Bruijn–Erdős theorem, Davenport–Erdős theorem, Erdős–Borwein constant, Erdős–Woods number, Erdős–Straus conjecture, Erdős–Kac theorem, Erdős–Szekeres theorem, Erdős–Rényi model, Erdős conjecture on arithmetic progressions, Erdős–Graham problem, Erdős–Mordell inequality, Erdős distinct distances problem, Erdős–Gyárfás conjecture, Erdős–Fuchs theorem, Erdős–Szemerédi theorem, Erdős–Nicolas number, Erdős-Moser equation, Erdős–Burr conjecture, Erdős–Ko–Rado theorem, Erdős cardinal, Erdős–Anning theorem, De Bruijn–Erdős theorem, Erdős–Ulam problem, Erdős–Diophantine graph, Erdős–Rado theorem, Erdős–Tetali theorem, Erdős–Stone theorem, Erdős–Pósa theorem, Erdős–Gallai theorem, Erdős–Nagy theorem, Erdős arcsine law, Erdős–Kaplansky theorem, Erdős theorem, Erdős–Faber–Lovász conjecture, Erdős–Turán conjecture on additive bases, Erdős-Wintner theorem, Chung–Erdős inequality
Wikipedia: in 84 languages

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Elsewhere11

identity

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stated by WikidataGND118994050
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papers

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stated by WikidataSemantic Scholar1689167

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project19470

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 27). Paul Erdős: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-27]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q173746