After 80 Years, Mathematicians Give Famed ‘Erdős Method’ an Upgrade - Quanta Magazine

Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his technique even more powerful.

In 1947, Paul Erds, the itinerant Hungarian mathematician, introduced what would become one of maths most powerful tools. He wanted to prove that a certain kind of object existed in this case, a netw…