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That's not true, as Wikipedia says: "Paul Erdős, one of the most prolific mathematicians in history, remained unconvinced until he was shown a computer simulat
by diginet 12y ago
That's not true, as Wikipedia says:
"Paul Erdős, one of the most prolific mathematicians in history, remained unconvinced until he was shown a computer simulation confirming the predicted result (Vazsonyi 1999)."
- vladislav 12y agoLol, Paul Erdos was 82 in 1995, which is when Vazsonyi claims they had this conversation, a year before Erdos died. Beyond his advanced age, it's well known that he did amphetamines his whole life and by that point his brain was pretty fried. I guarantee you if you gave the Monty Hall problem to the great Erdos in his primetime he would've thought it trivial.