According to Hoffman (Archimedes’ Revenge, 1988), the Hungarian was so devoted to mathematics that he went without wife, children, steady job, or even a home, preferring to exist as the wandering guest of fellow mathematicians. Though little known among nonmathematicians, Erdîs, who died in 1996 at age 83, was a legend among his colleagues. An affectionate if impressionistic portrayal of one of the century’s greatest and strangest mathematicians.
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