He travelled constantly, living out of a plastic bag and had no interest in food, sex, companionship, art - all that is usually indispensible to a human life. '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 he died. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers - The Story of Paul Erdios and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman $14.00 NZD
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