01639nam a2200361Ia 4500 20260803094159.0 251212s2013 xx 000 0 und d The boy who loved math : the improbable life of Paul Erdîos / by Deborah Heiligman ; pictures by LeUyen Pham. Improbable life of Paul Erdîos. Heiligman, Deborah|eauthor Pham, LeUyen,|eillustrator. New York : Scholastic, c2013. First edition. 37 pages: color illustrations 25 cm. Lex: 550 978-0-545-70305-5 Mathematicians Hungary BIOGRAPHY Juvenile literature. ; Erdîos, Paul, 1913-1996 Juvenile literature. 510.92 H36b 2014 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 1 0 GS3286 in English Grade School Library 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. 0 text|2rdacontent. unmediated|2rdamedia. volume|2rdacarrier. lcc BK jderpo 2016-10-18 16:30:58 jderpo 2016-10-18 16:30:58 9112 9089 9089 0 0 ddc 0 0 BED BED BED 2025-12-21 510.92 H36b 2014 GS3286 2026-06-18 00:00:00 2025-12-21 BK