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
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth
1st ed.
by Paul Hoffman
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