Book:Paul Hoffman/The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
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Paul Hoffman: The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
Published $\text {1998}$, Hermann
- ISBN 0-7868-8406-1
Subtitle: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
Subject Matter
- Biography of Paul Erdős
Contents
- $0$: The Two-and-a-Half-Billion-Year-Old Man
- $1$: Straight from the Book
- $2$: Epszi's Enigma
- $e$: Problems with Sam and Joe
- $3$: Einstein vs. Dostoyevsky
- $\pi$: Dr. Worst Case
- $4$: Marginal Revenge
- $5$: "God Made the Integers"
- $6$: Getting the Goat
- $7$: Survivors' Party
- $\infty$: "We Mathematicians are All a Little Bit Crazy"
- Acknowledgments and Source Notes
- Bibliography
- Index