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[LOS ANGELES, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1998]

ISBN10: 0786884061, ISBN13: 9780786884063, [publisher: Hyperion - Acquired Assets] Softcover
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ISBN10: 0786884061, ISBN13: 9780786884063, [publisher: Hyperion, New York] Softcover Paperback. "A funny, marvelously readable portrait of one of the most brilliant and eccentric men in history." --The Seattle Times Paul Erdos was an amazing and prolific mathematician whose life as a world-wandering numerical nomad was legendary. He published almost 1500 scholarly papers before his death in 1996, and he probably thought more about math problems than anyone in history. Like a traveling salesman offering his thoughts as wares, Erdos would show up on the doorstep of one mathematician or another and announce, "My brain is open." After working through a problem, he'd move on to the next place, the next solution. Hoffman's book, like Sylvia Nasar's biography of John Nash, A Beautiful Mind, reveals a genius's life that transcended the merely quirky. But Erdos's brand of madness was joyful, unlike Nash's despairing schizophrenia. Erdos never tried to dilute his obsessive passion for numbers with ordinary emotional interactions, thus avoiding hurting the people around him, as Nash did. Oliver Sacks writes of Erdos: "A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject--he thought and wrote mathematics for nineteen hours a day until the day he died. He traveled constantly, living out of a plastic bag, and had no interest in food, sex, companionship, art--all that is usually ...
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ISBN10: 0786884061, ISBN13: 9780786884063, [publisher: HACHETTE BOOKS Mai 1999] Softcover Neuware - 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. photos.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 1999]
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[Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]

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ISBN10: 0786884061, ISBN13: 9780786884063, [publisher: HACHETTE BOOKS Mai 1999] Softcover Neuware -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. photos. 352 pp. Englisch
[Bergisch Gladbach, Germany] [Publication Year: 1999]
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ISBN10: 0786884061, ISBN13: 9780786884063, [publisher: HACHETTE BOOKS] Softcover &Uumlber den AutorPaul Hoffman&#160was president of Encyclopedia Britannica and editor-in-chief of&#160Discover, and is the author of&#160The Man Who Loved Only Numbers&#160and&#160The Wings of Madness. He is t.
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 1999]
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[Miami, FL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1998]

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[Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1998]

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[Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1999]

Hyperion Books, Date: 1999. Paperback. New. 336 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.00 inches. 1999. Hyperion Books ISBN 0786884061 9780786884063 [GB]

ISBN10: 0786884061, ISBN13: 9780786884063, [publisher: Hyperion - Acquired Assets] Softcover
[Columbia, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1998]
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