The Man Who Loved Only Numbers : The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth (Paperback)

from dvf1976

I started reading this book in 2001 and picked it up when I saw it on the shelf in our guest bedroom. Since I took a break from reading it, I had read so many other math biographies that alot of th...

from pilastr

Couldn't tie his shoes or turn off a faucet, Erdos was a speed freak celibate number theorist and child prodigy against whom every subsequent mathematician is measured. Hoffman turns Erdos' life an...

from readaholic12

An amazing genius! I'm not a math person (at all!), but I love smart, fascinating people - Erdos lived out of a suitcase, interested only in solving math problems with the brightest minds. He was s...

from nickp

An abolute gem of a book about a truly singular individual. Apart from his own contribution to mathematics, he seems to have had a gift for asking just the right question of the right people. A fas...

from uawelder

Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Interesting history of a man, his times, and his genius. I enjoyed the history lesson, and actually learned a bit of math to top it off. If the included cases/historie...