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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers : The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for...
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- ISBN
- 9780786884063
- Book Title
- Man Who Loved only Numbers : the Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Hyperion Press
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Features
- Reprint
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Mathematics
- Topic
- History & Philosophy, Cultural Heritage, Science & Technology
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 11.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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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 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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Publisher
Hyperion Press
ISBN-10
0786884061
ISBN-13
9780786884063
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1010115
Product Key Features
Book Title
Man Who Loved only Numbers : the Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
History & Philosophy, Cultural Heritage, Science & Technology
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Mathematics
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.3in
Weight
9.9 Oz
Item Weight
11.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Age Range
18
Lc Classification Number
Qa29.R3
Publication Date
1999-05-12
Grade from
Eighth Grade
Grade to
College Graduate Student
Edition Description
Reprint
Copyright Date
1998
Lccn
98-014027
Dewey Decimal
510/.92 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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