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ISBN: 9780786863624

EAN: 9780786863624

Book Title: Man Who Loved only Numbers : the Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth

Item Length: 8.2in

Publisher: Hyperion Press

Publication Year: 1998

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Item Height: 1in

Author: Paul Hoffman

Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Mathematics

Topic: History & Philosophy, Cultural Heritage, Science & Technology

Item Width: 5.5in

Item Weight: 10.6 Oz

Number of Pages: 320 Pages

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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 another and announce, "My brain is open." After working through a problem, he'd move on to the next place, the next solution. Hoffman's book, like Sylvia Nasar's biography of John Nash, A Beautiful Mind, reveals a genius's life that transcended the merely quirky. But Erdos's brand of madness was joyful, unlike Nash's despairing schizophrenia. Erdos never tried to dilute his obsessive passion for numbers with ordinary emotional interactions, thus avoiding hurting the people around him, as Nash did. Oliver Sacks writes of Erdos: "A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject--he thought and wrote mathematics for nineteen hours a day until the day he died. He traveled constantly, living out of a plastic bag, and had no interest in food, sex, companionship, art--all that is usually indispensable to a human life."The Man Who Loved Only Numbers is easy to love, despite his strangeness. It's hard not to have affection for someone who referred to children as "epsilons," from the Greek letter used to represent small quantities in mathematics; a man whose epitaph for himself read, "Finally I am becoming stupider no more"; and whose only really necessary tool to do his work was a quiet and open mind. Hoffman, who followed and spoke with Erdos over the last 10 years of his life, introduces us to an undeniably odd, yet pure and joyful, man who loved numbers more than he loved God--whom he referred to as SF, for Supreme Fascist. He was often misunderstood, and he certainly annoyed people sometimes, but Paul Erdos is no doubt missed. --Therese Littleton

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Hyperion Press

ISBN-10

0786863625

ISBN-13

9780786863624

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Book Title

Man Who Loved only Numbers : the Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth

Author

Paul Hoffman

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Topic

History & Philosophy, Cultural Heritage, Science & Technology

Publication Year

1998

Genre

Biography & Autobiography, Mathematics

Number of Pages

320 Pages

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Item Length

8.2in

Item Height

1in

Item Width

5.5in

Weight

17.3 Oz

Item Weight

10.6 Oz

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Qa29.E68h64 1998

Publication Date

1998-07-15

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Eighth Grade

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College Graduate Student

1998

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98-014027

Dewey Decimal

510/.92 B

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Trade

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