num_pages: 302
description: Based on a National Magazine Award-winning article, this masterful biography of Hungarian-born Paul Erdos is both a vivid portrait of an eccentric genius and a layman's guide to some of this century's most startling mathematical discoveries.
language: English
title: The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of  Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
titlecomplete: The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of  Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
characters: Paul Erdos
genres: Biography, Science, Nonfiction, Memoir, Education, Popular Science, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Mathematics, History
ratings_count: 9573
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Royal Society Science Book Prize
category: General Prize
publisher: Hyperion - Acquired Assets