A review by hollysandvold
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman

5.0

This book is definitely best suited for the niche audience of amateur math nerds who don’t already know all the fun theorems and stories that Hoffman describes, but luckily, I am in that niche. The stories go beyond the life of Paul Erdös and explore the history of math. I loved the descriptions of quirky mathematicians and found the exploration of proofs and their origins really interesting. :)