https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1812.11935/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enWed, 04 Nov 2026 05:35:47 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50340586urn:hackerpapers:mention:1812.11935:50340586Mon, 02 Nov 2026 17:45:44 GMT<p>I should say, Erdős was acclaimed but actually far from universally popular within mathematics. I had a professor who advised me to stay away from another professor because the other professor was a follower of Erdős. Pre-AI, I think it&#x27;s correct to say that math exposition was given short shrift (but to be fair, at least in the US, math education fell under the umbrella of education schools and teacher training rather than university math departments and so professors of mathematics often could do little to change the sorry state of math education even if they wanted to). But, on the other…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1812.11935/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>math.HOhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18818511urn:hackerpapers:submission:1812.11935:18818511Thu, 03 Jan 2019 19:44:54 GMT<p>The Erdos Paradox</p><p></p><p>133 points; 40 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1812.11935/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>math.HO