![]() In his lecture, Paul Hoffman introduces us to the genius of Erdös, and to some of the other remarkable mathematical minds he encountered along the way, in an intimate and entertaining glimpse into the global world of mathematics. ![]() Remembered as a charming yet impish philosopher-scientist, for more than six decades Erdös lived out of two tattered suitcases, criss-crossing four continents at a frenzied pace, chasing mathematical problems. Paul Hoffman won the 1999 Aventis Prize for Science Books for The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, his biography of the mathematician Paul Erdös.Įrdös was unusual not only intellectually but also in the way he lived, forsaking all creature comforts - including a home - to pursue his lifelong study of numbers. ![]()
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