Mathematicians are strange creatures. Here's a story about Paul Erdős . In addition, as many of Erdős's collaborations were handled via mail, and because he dealt with so many people he would sometimes forget what they actually looked like. On one occasion, Erdős met a mathematician and asked him where he was from. "Vancouver," the mathematician replied. "Oh, then you must know my good friend Elliot Mendelson", Erdős said. The reply was "I AM your good friend Elliot Mendelson." Paul Erdős's first paper was a new proof of Bertrand's conjecture which states that there is always a prime number between any number and twice that number. Erdős is the most prolific mathematician in history with author credits for 1521 academic papers. He was a prolific collaborator as well and collaborated with 509 authors. Here's Paul Erdős talking about child prodigies . Both Erdos and Ramanujan appear to have interacted with G. H. Hardy. Of...
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