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Paul Erdős

In Our Time: Science

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The Prodigious Intelligence of Eddish

At the age of three, Eddish would cube any number he was given. He took a first-class degree and his PhD at the same time when he was 17 years old. In Hungary, they have this lovely culture of journals for high school children. They'll have mathematical problems stated each month in them. Then students write in and give what they think is the solution. The winners are then announced every month. So at that stage, EddISH was one of the most prolific problem solvers. Even at an early stage, he was doing novel research.

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