{"id":240861,"date":"2026-07-14T20:16:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T01:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/after-80-years-mathematicians-give-famed-erdos-method-an-upgrade"},"modified":"2026-07-14T20:16:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T01:16:58","slug":"after-80-years-mathematicians-give-famed-erdos-method-an-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/after-80-years-mathematicians-give-famed-erdos-method-an-upgrade","title":{"rendered":"After 80 Years, Mathematicians Give Famed \u2018Erd\u0151s Method\u2019 an Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/after-80-years-mathematicians-give-famed-erdos-method-an-upgrade.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Decades ago, Paul Erd\u0151s used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his technique even more powerful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decades ago, Paul Erd\u0151s used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his technique even more powerful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}