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2026-05-02 17:23 UTC
@jonmsterling@mathstodon.xyz @ofc1996@mathstodon.xyz "new" is very subjective. Erdős didn't have many truly new ideas by any normal measure. What can count as one of half a dozen of his truly new idea is the Probabilistic Method
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_method
Disclaimer: my Erdős number is 2, in two ways (via two different publications and coauthors)
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@antoinechambertloir@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-02 17:52
@dimpase@mathstodon.xyz @jonmsterling@mathstodon.xyz @ofc1996@mathstodon.xyz and Shannon could also be credited for inventing the probabilistic method.