Erds Centennial [Hardcover]

Paul Erd?s was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century, whose work in number theory, combinatorics, set theory, analysis, and other branches of mathematics has determined the development of large areas of these fields. In 1999, a conference was organized to survey his work, his contributions to mathematics, and the far-reaching impact of his work on many branches of mathematics. On the 100th anniversary of his birth, this volume undertakes the almost impossible task to describe the ways in which problems raised by him and topics initiated by him (indeed, whole branches of mathematics) continue to flourish. Written by outstanding researchers in these areas, these papers include extensive surveys of classical results as well as of new developments.

Contents.- Preface.- Alon, N.: Paul Erd?s and Probabilistic Reasoning.- Benjamini, I.: Euclidean vs. Graph Metric.- Bollobas, B. and Riordan, O.: The Phase Transition in the Erd?sR?nyi Random Graph Process.- Bourgain, J.: Around the Sum-product Phenomenon.- Breuillard, E., Green, B. and Tao, T.: Small Doubling in Groups.- Diamond, H. G.: Erd?s and Multiplicative Number Theory.- F?redi, Z. and Simonovits, M.: The History of Degenerate (Bipartite) Extremal Graph Problems.- Gowers, W. T.: Erd?s and Arithmetic Progressions.- Graham, R. L.: Paul Erd?s and Egyptian Fractions.- Gy?ry, K.: Perfect Powers in Products with Consecutive Terms from Arithmetic Progressions.- Komj?th, P.: Erd?ss Work on Infinite Graphs.- Kunen, K.: The Impact of Paul Erd?os on Set Theory.- Mauldin, R. D.: Some Problems and Ideas of Erd?s in Analysis and Geometry.- Montgomery, H. L.: L2 Majorant Principles.- Nesetril, J.: A Combinatorial Classic  Sparse Graphs with High Chromatic Number.- Nguyen, H. H. and Vu, V. H.: Small Ball Probability, Inverse Theorems, and Applications.- Pach, J.: The Beginnings of Geometric Graph Theory.- Pintz, J.: Paul Erd?s and the Difference of Primes.- Pollack, P. and PolCØ