From miki@math-inst.huTue Sep 24 20:33:36 1996
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 12:06:21 -0400
From: Miklos Simonovits <miki@math-inst.hu>
To: NMBRTHRY@listserv.nodak.edu
Subject: Paul Erdo"s has left us

Paul Erdos died Friday afternoon (20 September, 1996), in Warsaw.
Early morning he felt some health problems, in a hotel in Warsaw.  So
he was carried into a hospital, where he died in the afternoon.  (He
was 83).

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As far as I know, he had a heart attack, rather serious, very early in
the morning, in this Warsaw hotel, where he stayed while visiting the
Minisemester for Combinatorics, (for two weeks), gave two lectures.
Vera Sos and Andras Sarkozy are leaving Budapest for Warsaw right now,
Saturday morning, and Paul's original plans were to fly from Warsaw to
Vilnius (for the Kubilius Conference) with Vera and Andras together,
on Sunday.

The doctor informed us that he had two heart attacks and the second
one killed him. (Perhaps even the first one was serious enough to
prevent him from communicating to his surrounding.  This may explain
e.g.  that he could not reach the mathematicians.  We learned about
his heart attacks only after his death.)

Miki Simonovits.