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edited Aug 1, 2018 at 17:41

Following my private communication with Ron Graham, he kindly shared all what he knew about Erdős' mathematical diaries with me. Here is part of our discussion which I am allowed to share on MathOverflow for the benefit of the public mathematical community. At Ron's request, I removed the name of one of Erdős' co-authors in the below passage. Emphases are mine.

I would like to sincerely thank Ron for his attention to my question as well as his permission for publishing part of our private communication here on MathOverflow.

Besides the literally thousands of letters that ErdosErdős wrote during his lifetime, the best source of his unpublished mathematical thoughts are contained in his mathematical diaries, which he meticulously kept for most of his life. In them, he would write what he was thinking about, who he was visiting, etc. There are 15 or so of them, kept in what looks like laboratory notebooks. Of course, they are all in Hungarian. When Erdős died, the diaries were given to his close colleague [name removed] (who) still has them but will not let anyone see them. Many of us have tried to change [name removed]'s mind but to no avail.

I would like to sincerely thank Ron for his attention to my question as well as his permission for publishing part of our private communication here on MathOverflow.

Besides the literally thousands of letters that Erdos wrote during his lifetime, the best source of his unpublished mathematical thoughts are contained in his mathematical diaries, which he meticulously kept for most of his life. In them, he would write what he was thinking about, who he was visiting, etc. There are 15 or so of them, kept in what looks like laboratory notebooks. Of course, they are all in Hungarian. When Erdős died, the diaries were given to his close colleague [name removed] (who) still has them but will not let anyone see them. Many of us have tried to change [name removed]'s mind but to no avail.

I would like to sincerely thank Ron for his attention to my question as well as his permission for publishing part of our private communication here on MathOverflow.

Besides the literally thousands of letters that Erdős wrote during his lifetime, the best source of his unpublished mathematical thoughts are contained in his mathematical diaries, which he meticulously kept for most of his life. In them, he would write what he was thinking about, who he was visiting, etc. There are 15 or so of them, kept in what looks like laboratory notebooks. Of course, they are all in Hungarian. When Erdős died, the diaries were given to his close colleague [name removed] (who) still has them but will not let anyone see them. Many of us have tried to change [name removed]'s mind but to no avail.

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I would like to sincerely thank Ron for his attention to my question as well as his permission for publishing part of our private communication here on MathOverflow.

Besides the literally thousands of letters that Erdos wrote during his lifetime, the best source of his unpublished mathematical thoughts are contained in his mathematical diaries, which he meticulously kept for most of his life. In them, he would write what he was thinking about, who he was visiting, etc. There are 15 or so of them, kept in what looks like laboratory notebooks. Of course, they are all in Hungarian. When Erdős died, the diaries were given to his close colleague [name removed] (who) still has them but will not let anyone see them. Many of us have tried to change [name removed]'s mind but to no avail.