The man who loved only numbers: the story of Paul Erdos and the search for mathematical truth
Choice Reviews OnlinePublished 1 March 1999
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Abstract
A biography of the Hungarian pure mathematical genius, Paul Erdos, born in 1913 in Budapest. Erdos led a strange life, devoting 19 hours a day, seven days a week to the study of mathematics, travelling the world with his mother until his death at the age of 83. He is considered one of the most extraordinary thinkers of our times.
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Mathematics