![]() ![]() In this bestselling biography, Hoffman provides an intimate look at Erdös's life, introducing readers to a cast of remarkable geniuses, from Archimedes to Stanislaw Ulam, one of the chief minds behind the Los Alamos nuclear project. ![]() His mother had tied his shoes for him until he was eleven, and he buttered his first piece of toast at the age of 21. He didn't even know how to boil water for tea. For more than two decades, he lived out of two tattered suitcases, crisscrossing four continents at a frenzied pace, showing up uninvited on the doorsteps of colleagues, chasing mathematical problems in pursuit of lasting beauty and ultimate truth. He forsook all creature comforts-including a home, a mate, and a family-to pursue his lifelong study of numbers. Paul Erdös was one of the most prolific and eccentric mathematician of our time, a man who possessed unimaginable powers of thought yet was unable to manage some of the simplest daily tasks. ![]() The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth ![]()
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