Erdős famous description: a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. Actually, his diet really consisted mostly of coffee and caffeine tablets. Although all his life he abhorred physical intimacy he hated to be alone. What he sought for was really mental pleasure. The more the merrier. Unfortunately, it takes more than one person to play this game. His dissatisfactions confining to one fixed place with the same circle of lackadaisical math devotions force him to travel around the world in search of his next collaboration. His sojourns were made easier simply because he hardly brought any luggage along. Contrary to a traveling salesperson he was not selling anything for monetary gains. What he wanted was to create new and to solve old mathematical problems. His narrow single track purpose made him the most prolific math author producing over 1500 papers in a lifetime second only to Euler. If the word ’COFFEE’ represents the acronym for ‘Conjectures Offered for Formal Empirical Evaluation’ then Erdős definition hits the bull’s-eye. In the real world, the solutions to pure mathematical problems often never connected instantly to practical real life problems. Some usually take years to find their applicability. On the other hand, there are unsolved mathematical problems and unproved conjectures that consumed generations of the best minds the world has to offer and still remain devoid of any final resolution. It is admirable for the human spirit generations after generations to carry on the lighted torch for finding new discoveries. These flame bearers are the true mathematicians.


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