Losonczi, László Paul Erdős on functional equations: Contributions and impact. (English) Zbl 0885.01023 Aequationes Math. 54, No. 3, 221-233 (1997). Short biography of Erdős, and a survey of papers that were inspired by his results and conjectures on extensions of functional equations, almost everywhere additive functions, and additive arithmetical functions. Bibliography of fifty entries. Reviewer: D.Laugwitz (Darmstadt) Cited in 1 Document MSC: 01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies 39-03 History of difference and functional equations Keywords:Obituary; P. Erdős; functional equations; additive functions Biographic References: Erdős, P. PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{L. 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