The boy who loved math : the improbable life of Paul Erdos / by Deborah Heiligman ; pictures by LeUyen Pham. --

By:

Heiligman, Deborah

Contributor(s):

Pham, LeUyen

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2013.Edition: 1st ed. --Description: 37 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cmISBN:

1596433078
9781596433076

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

510.92 22

LOC classification:

QA29.E68 H45 2013

Summary: Growing up in Hungary during WWI, Erdos tried school but chafed at the rules and convinced his mother that he should study at home. He was fascinated by numbers from an early age, and by the time he was 20, he was known as The Magician from Budapest. Unable to do common tasks such as cooking, laundry, or driving, he spent his adult life flying around the world, staying with other mathematicians, and working collaboratively on challenging math problems.

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Growing up in Hungary during WWI, Erdos tried school but chafed at the rules and convinced his mother that he should study at home. He was fascinated by numbers from an early age, and by the time he was 20, he was known as The Magician from Budapest. Unable to do common tasks such as cooking, laundry, or driving, he spent his adult life flying around the world, staying with other mathematicians, and working collaboratively on challenging math problems.

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