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  The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

  The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth

  by Paul Hoffman

  Based on a National Magazine Award-winning article, this masterful biography of Hungarian-born Paul Erdos is both a vivid portrait of an eccentric genius and a layman's guide to some of this century's most startling mathematical discoveries.
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  MY BRAIN IS OPEN: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos

  by Bruce Schechter

  Paul Erdõs, one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, and certainly the most eccentric, was internationally recognized as a prodigy by age seventeen. Hungarian-born Erdõs believed that the meaning of life was to prove and conjecture. His work in the United States and all over the world has earned him the titles of the century's leading number theorist and the most prolific mathematician who ever... (more)
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  The Music of the Primes

  Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics

  by Marcus Du Sautoy

  In 1859, German mathematician Bernhard Riemann presented a paper to the Berlin Academy that would forever change the history of mathematics. The subject was the mystery of prime numbers. At the heart of the presentation was an idea that Riemann had not yet proved but one that baffles mathematicians to this day. Solving the Riemann Hypothesis could change the way we do business, since prime numbers are the... (more)