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

Author: Paul Hoffman Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Science, History, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780786884063 0786884061

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 and a layman's guide to some of this century's most startling mathematical discoveries. Similar books: The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel My Brain is Open by Bruce Schechter Perfect Rigor by Masha Gessen The Man of Numbers by Keith Devlin Men Of Mathematics by Eric Temple Bell The Boy Who Loved Math by Deborah Heiligman The Joy of x by Steven Strogatz How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos The Artist and the Mathematician by Amir D. Aczel Blockhead by Joseph D'Agnese Geekspeak by Graham Tattersall Archimedes' Revenge by Paul Hoffman Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine by Laurie Wallmark Poincare's Prize by George G. Szpiro Wings of Madness by Paul Hoffman October Sky by Homer Hickam Riding Rockets by Mike Mullane The Last Man on the Moon by Eugene Cernan Falling to Earth by Al Worden