The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos by Deborah Heiligman Botany Miss Alcott's writing is filled

Miss Alcott's writing is filled with gentle life lessons

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The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos by Deborah Heiligman Botany Miss Alcott's writing is filledMost people think of mathematicians as solitary, working away in isolation. And, it's true, many of them do. But Paul Erdos never followed the usual path. At the age of four, he could ask you when you were born and then calculate the number of seconds you had been alive in his head. But he didn't learn to butter his own bread until he turned twenty. Instead, he traveled around the world, from one mathematician to the next, collaborating on an