num_pages: 301
description: A biography of the Hungarian pure mathematical genius, Paul Erdos, born in 1913 in Budapest. Erdos led a strange life, devoting 19 hours a day, seven days a week to the study of mathematics, travelling the world with his mother until his death at the age of 83. He is considered one of the most extraordinary thinkers of our times.
language: English
title: Man Who Loved Only Numbers :ERDOS
titlecomplete: Man Who Loved Only Numbers :ERDOS
characters: Paul Erdos
genres: Popular Science, History, Biography, Science, Memoir, Education, Autobiography, Mathematics, Biography Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 9573
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Royal Society Science Book Prize
category: General Prize
publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd