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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Scholastic, c2013.Edition: First editionDescription: 37 pages: color illustrations; 25 cmContent type:
  • text|2rdacontent.
Media type:
  • unmediated|2rdamedia.
Carrier type:
  • volume|2rdacarrier.
ISBN:
  • 978-0-545-70305-5
Uniform titles:
  • Improbable life of Paul Erdîos.
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 510.92 H36b 2014
Contents:
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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