The lady of the upstairs, Eva, she found one in the dumpster, the whole set...well, except for the Erdos.

楼上的女士伊瓦，她在垃圾箱里这些书，一套书，不过没有《俄代斯》。

But so Tao was working on one of these problems called the Erdos discrepancy.

但陶哲轩当时正致力于解决一个名为“埃尔德差异问题”的难题。

So Tao was working on a problem, on an Erdos problem, actually.

实际上，陶哲轩当时正在研究一个难题，一个埃尔德问题。

And a highly intelligent, but humble, six-foot-long sponge, labeled Erdos, stuck in a foundation of chemical sediment at the bottom of a tank of reprocessing salt water.

还有一块高智商却谦逊的六英尺长海绵，名为埃尔德，它嵌在再处理盐水池底部的化学沉积层中。

If you had asked me about Erdos, I would have got it wrong.

如果你问过《俄代斯》的话，么都答不上来。

If you asked me about Erdos, I would have got it wrong. I was just lucky.

如果你问“厄尔多斯”，答不上来，只是运气好罢。

We have a few people to thank:   Kathy English, David Erdos, Ed Haber, Brewster Kahle, Jane Kamensky, and to  everyone who shared their story with me.

莫莉：们要感谢几个人：凯西·英格利希、大卫·厄多斯、埃德·哈伯、布鲁斯特·卡勒、简·卡门斯基，以及所有与分享他们的故事的人。

So Paul Erdos was this mathematician from Hungary, and he was known for the Erdos, for a lot of things, but one of the things that he was also known was for the Erdos problem.

因此， 保罗·埃尔德是匈牙利的一位数学家，他因埃尔德数以及其他诸多成就而闻名，其中一项广为人知的便是埃尔德问题。