The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
By Paul Hoffman
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By Paul Hoffman
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"A funny, marvelously readable portrait of one of the most brilliant and eccentric men in history." --The Seattle Times
Paul Erdos was an amazing and prolific mathematician whose life as a world-wandering numerical nomad was legendary. He published almost 1500 scholarly papers before his death in 1996, and he probably thought more about math problems than anyone in history. Like a traveling salesman offering his thoughts as wares, Erdos would show up on the doorstep of one mathematician or ...
Paul Erdos was an amazing and prolific mathematician whose life as a world-wandering numerical nomad was legendary. He published almost 1500 scholarly papers before his death in 1996, and he probably thought more about math problems than anyone in history. Like a traveling salesman offering his thoughts as wares, Erdos would show up on the doorstep of one mathematician or ...






















