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The Boy Who Loved Math
The Improbable Life of Paul Erdős
By Heiligman, Deborah
- ISBN
- 978-1-59643-307-6
- Publisher
- Roaring Brook
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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on June 1, 2013
Heiligman and Pham combine their considerable talents in this unique look at the "Magician from Budapest," nomadic mathematician Paul Erdos (1913-96). A precocious youngster, Paul hates rules. Cared for by his doting mother and imperious "Fraulein," young Paul is spoiled rotten -- the two women "cut his meat and buttered his bread and got him dressed and tied his shoes." But where the mundane details of daily life don't do much for Paul, numbers are a different story. Paul "thought about math whatever he was doing, wherever he was" as...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2013 | Biographies
Heiligman presents the nomadic mathematician Paul Erdős as an appealing eccentric: for instance, Paul referred to children as "...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
