Bibliograph

The boy who loved math, the improbably life of Paul Erdos, by Deborah Heiligman ;pictures by LeUyen Pham

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The boy who loved math, the improbably life of Paul Erdos, by Deborah Heiligman ;pictures by LeUyen Pham

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

3-8

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The boy who loved math

Responsibility statement

by Deborah Heiligman ;pictures by LeUyen Pham

Sub title

the improbably life of Paul Erdos

Summary

Growing up in Hungary during WWI, Erdos tried school but chafed at the rules and convinced his mother that he should study at home. He was fascinated by numbers from an early age, and by the time he was 20, he was known as The Magician from Budapest. Unable to do common tasks such as cooking, laundry, or driving, he spent his adult life flying around the world, staying with other mathematicians, and working collaboratively on challenging math problems

Target audience

primary

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