story of Paul Erdos and the search for mathematical truth
by Paul Hoffman.
London
Fourth Estate
1999
301 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., facsim., ports. ; 20 cm.
From the David Lingard history of mathematics collection.; Originally published: 1998.
The most prolific of pure mathematicians, Paul Erdos was also possibly the strangest. This biography describes a long life which was consumed by mathematics from a very early age, to the exclusion of experiences which most people take for granted.