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.
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The man who loved only numbers: the story of Paul Erdös and the search for mathematical truth
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
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