An image of Erdős in front of a blackboard, from the documentary “N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős” by George Paul Csicsery

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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 15:11:04 UTC Robert McNees

   The mathematician Paul Erdős had a fantasy that he'd die giving a lecture: he would prove a result, someone would ask about a generalization, he'd reply "I'll leave that to the next generation," and then he'd die.

   He passed away at a conference in Warsaw #OTD in 1996, just after proving a new result.