The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth (Hardback)
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Short Description for The Man Who Loved Only Numbers Paul Erdos, the most prolific and eccentric mathematician of our time, forsook all creature comforts - including a home - to pursue his lifelong study of numbers. He was a man who possessed unimaginable powers of thought yet was unable to manage some of the simplest daily tasks. For more than six decades, Erdos lived out of two tattered suitcases, crisscrossing four continents at a frenzied pace, ...
Full description- Publisher: American Mathematical Society
- Published: 01 September 1998
- Format: Hardback 301 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering | Mathematics | History Of Mathematics | History Of Science
- ISBN 13: 9780786863624 ISBN 10: 0786863625
- Sales rank: 489,390
Full bibliographic data for The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
- Title
- The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
- Subtitle
- The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
- Authors and contributors
- Physical properties
- Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 301
Width: 152 mm
Height: 222 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight: 499 g - Audience
- College/higher education
General/trade
Professional and scholarly - Language
- English
- ISBN
- ISBN 13: 9780786863624
ISBN 10: 0786863625 - Classifications
- Dewey: B
BISAC category code: MAT000000
BICMainSubject: PDX
Dewey: 510.92
Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T4.6
BICMainSubject: PBX
BICMainSubject: BG
BISAC category code: BIO015000
BISAC category code: MAT015000 - Illustrations note
- illustrations
- Publisher
- American Mathematical Society
- Imprint name
- American Mathematical Society
- Publication date
- 01 September 1998
- Publication City/Country
- Providence/US
