“The SF created us to enjoy our suffering. … The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans.”

—  Paul Erdős

SF was an abbreviation for "Supreme Fascist" — the term Erdős often used to refer to God, as quoted in The Man Who Loved Only Numbers : The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth (1998) by Paul Hoffman, p. 4

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Hungarian mathematician and freelancer 1913–1996

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