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ISBN10: 0786884061, ISBN13: 9780786884063, [publisher: Hyperion Books] Softcover Some shelf wear on bottom edge, almost new. ISBN 0786884061
[Chisseaux, France] [Publication Year: 1999]

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: 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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[Reno, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]

ISBN10: 0786884061, ISBN13: 9780786884063, [publisher: Hyperion Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.] Softcover First Edition (1st Thus) Trade paperback, 318 pages, white background with numbers in shape of person's head on front wrapper, praise too from Oliver Sacks, praise on back wrapper from The Washington Post and Seattle Times. Very Fine.
[New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1998]

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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ISBN10: 0786884061, ISBN13: 9780786884063, [publisher: Hachette Books] Softcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
[Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]

ISBN10: 0786884061, ISBN13: 9780786884063, [publisher: NY; Hyperion] Softcover 317 S.; Abb.; kart. Gutes Ex.; Einband minimal berieben. - THE TWO-AND-A-HALF-BILLION-YEAR-OLD MAN -- STRAIGHT FROM THE BOOK -- EPSZI'S ENIGMA -- PROBLEMS WITH SAM AND JOE -- EINSTEIN VS. DOSTOYEVSKY -- DR. WORST CASE -- MARGINAL REVENGE -- 'GOD MADE THE INTEGERS" -- GETTING THE GOAT -- SURVIVORS' PARTY -- "WE MATHEMATICIANS ARE ALL A LITTLE BIT CRAZY" -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND SOURCE NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY. // Paul Erdös (ungarisch Erdös Pál; * 26. März 1913 in Budapest, Österreich-Ungarn; † 20. September 1996 in Warschau, Polen) war einer der bedeutendsten Mathematiker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Paul Erdös arbeitete mit Hunderten von Kollegen auf den Gebieten Kombinatorik, Graphentheorie und Zahlentheorie zusammen. Erdös ist im Zusammenhang mit der Erdös-Zahl bekannt. Von ihm stammt außerdem die Idee zu dem BUCH, in dem Gott die perfekten Beweise für mathematische Sätze aufbewahrt. Ein Versuch, diesem Buch nahezukommen, stellt Das BUCH der Beweise dar, das 1998 mit seiner Einwilligung veröffentlicht wurde. Erdös' hauptsächliche Arbeitsgebiete waren Zahlentheorie und Kombinatorik. Außerdem war er ein Pionier in der Anwendung wahrscheinlichkeitstheoretischer Argumente in der Zahlentheorie und der Graphentheorie. Erdös war nicht so sehr am Aufbau von Theorien interessiert, sondern an der Lösung spezieller Probleme, mit möglichst einfachen, ...
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ISBN10: 0786884061, ISBN13: 9780786884063, [publisher: Hyperion, New York] Softcover 317 p.
[WEDEL, SH, Germany] [Publication Year: 1998]

New York: Hyperion. Fine copy. Date: 1998. Later prt.. softcover. 8vo, 302 pp. . 1998. Hyperion ISBN 0786884061 9780786884063 [US]

ISBN10: 0786884061, ISBN13: 9780786884063, [publisher: Hyperion, New York] Softcover 8vo, 302 pp.
[Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1998]

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