Top Mathematician Dies Of Heart Attack

Paul Erdos, one of this century’s leading mathematicians, has died of a heart attack while attending an international conference of mathematicians here. He was 83.

The Hungarian-American mathematician died Friday at the Medical Academy Hospital in Warsaw, the Hungarian Embassy said.

Erdos, a member of Britain’s Royal Society and the national academies of Hungary, the Netherlands, the United States, Australia and India, was known for his work in numbers theory, theory of sets and probability theory.