"You can ask the question about these ancient topics, such as s and ... and ask, are these good problems... I'd like to give a small amount of evidence... that they are... [S]tudying them helped us develop all of elementary number theory and from elementary number theory we developed the rest of number theory, and also you can argue that from elementary number theory came algebra.."
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"Paul Erdős and the Rise of Statistical Thinking in Elementary Number Theory" (July, 2013) Erdős Centennial Conference, Budapest.
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