It was dinnertime in Greenbrook, New Jersey, on a cold spring day in 1987, and Paul Erdos, then seventy-four, had lost four mathematical colleagues, who were sitting fifty feet in front of him, sipping green tea.
An edition of The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
(1998)
The man who loved only numbers
the story of Paul Erdös and the search for mathematical truth
by Paul Hoffman
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