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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers.

  The man who loved only numbers – by Paul Hoffman The book is a biography of Paul Erdos, a Hungarian mathematician. Paul was highly talented and his talent was realized by his parents when they saw him doing three digit multiplications in his mind at the age of three. He could quickly convert the ages of strangers from years to seconds in his mind. When he was 4 years he understood negative numbers and interestingly from that moment he was known to spread lot of positivity around him. The positivity was seen in his work for years. Erdos was not a paranoid like most others. He believed that team work gives the best results. He embraced a transient lifestyle, living out of a suitcase and constantly traveling to visit his colleagues all over the world, earning him the nickname "The Peripatetic Mathematician." Keep your SF score low: Throughout his studies, Erdos was smitten with prime numbers, and as a Jew, he not only believed in God, but he strongly conjectured tha...