The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman

This book is a fun and easy to read trail though his life, and explains where a lot of maths class `fairy tales' came from. He lived and breathed collaborative mathematics, to the extent of having collaborator-exhausting benzedrine/ritalin fueled 19-hour days of continual globe-trotting mathematics for the last 25 years of his life: 'there'll be plenty of time for rest in the grave'. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier.

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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman