hollysandvold 's review for:

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

5.0

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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. :)