The Man Who Loved Only Numbers The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth,9780786884063

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

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ISBN13: 9780786884063
ISBN10: 0786884061
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-05-12
Publisher(s): Hachette Books
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Summary

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. A man who possessed unimaginable powers of thought yet was unable to perform the simplest daily tasks, Erdos dedicated his life to the pursuit of mathematical truth. Here, award-winning science writer Paul Hoffman follows the career and achievements of this philosopher-scientist whose way of life was as inconceivable as the theorems he devised, yet whose accomplishments continue to enrich and inform the world.

Author Biography

Paul Hoffman was president of Encyclopedia Britannica and editor-in-chief of Discover, and is the author of The Man Who Loved Only Numbers and The Wings of Madness. He is the winner of the first National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, and his work has appeared in the New Yorker, Time, and Atlantic Monthly. He is the President and CEO of the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, NJ.

Table of Contents

The Two-and-a-Half-Billion-Year-Old Man
3(25)
Straight From the Book
25(34)
Epszi's Enigma
59(72)
Problems with Sam and Joe
95(36)
Einstein vs. Dostoyevsky
131(64)
Dr. Worst Case
145(50)
Marginal Revenge
195(24)
``God Made the Integers''
219(30)
Getting the Goat
249(14)
Survivors' Party
263(22)
``We Mathematicians are all a Little Bit Crazy''
279(6)
Acknowledgments and Source Notes 285(10)
Bibliography 295(10)
Index 305

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