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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The story of Paul Erdos and the search for mathematical truth

Hardcover • 1998 • English

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The story of Paul Erdos and the search for mathematical truth

By Paul Hoffman

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About the book

A biography of the Hungarian pure mathematical genius, Paul Erdos, born in 1913 in Budapest. Erdos led a strange life, devoting 19 hours a day, seven days a week to the study of mathematics, travel...

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9781857028119

Published year

1998

Language

English

Original title

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The story of Paul Erdos and the search for mathematical truth

Format

Hardcover

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