The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
by:
Paul Hoffman (author)
Based on a National Magazine Award-winning article, this masterful biography of Hungarian-born Paul Erdos is both a vivid portrait of an eccentric genius and a layman's guide to some of this century's most startling mathematical discoveries.
Based on a National Magazine Award-winning article, this masterful biography of Hungarian-born Paul Erdos is both a vivid portrait of an eccentric genius and a layman's guide to some of this century's most startling mathematical discoveries.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780786884063 (0786884061)
ASIN: 0786884061
Publish date: 1998
Publisher: Hyperion
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Science,
Popular Science,
20th Century,
Biography Memoir,
Mathematics
I originally wanted to be a mathematician, and I'm still enough of one that I am completely in awe of Erdös. He was the Saint Francis of Mathematics; he had no possessions, and just wandered around the world doing math research with like-minded people. I see that another reviewer has called him a "h...
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