Traces the eccentric life of legendary mathematician Paul Erdos, a wandering genius who fled his native Hungary during the Holocaust and helped devise the mathematical basis of computer science
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A biography of the most prolific mathematician who ever lived, the Hungarian-born Paul Erdos (1913-1996). The author covers the author's early years as a prodigy, his maturation as a mathematician, his political troubles both as a Jew in Europe before WWII and a freethinker in the US during the McCarthy era, his collaborations with countless other mathematicians, and his famous eccentricity. Includes many mathematical puzzles, but not so many that it is not accessible to non-mathematicians. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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