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Paul Hoffman - The Man Who Knew Only Numbers

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Paul Erdös was one of the most prolific and eccentric mathematician of our time, a man who possessed unimaginable powers of thought yet was unable to manage some of the simplest daily tasks. He forsook all creature comforts—including a home, a mate, and a family—to pursue his lifelong study of numbers. For more than two decades, he lived out of two tattered suitcases, crisscrossing four continents at a frenzied pace, showing up uninvited on the doorsteps of colleagues, chasing mathematical problems in pursuit of lasting beauty and ultimate truth. He was the houseguest from hell. He couldn't drive. He couldn't cook. He didn't even know how to boil water for tea. His mother had tied his shoes for him until he was eleven, and he buttered his first piece of toast at the age of 21. In this bestselling biography, Hoffman provides an intimate look at Erdös's life, introducing readers to a cast of remarkable geniuses, from Archimedes to Stanislaw Ulam, one of the chief minds behind the Los Ala

Paul Hoffman - The Man Who Knew Only Numbers contact | books | blog | bio | home The Man Who Loved Only Numbers The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth Paul Erdös was one of the most prolific and eccentric mathematician of our time, a man who possessed unimaginable powers of thought yet was unable to manage some of the simplest daily tasks. He forsook all creature comforts-including a home, a mate, and a family-to pursue his lifelong study of numbers. For more than two decades, he lived out of two tattered suitcases, crisscrossing four continents at a frenzied p

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