The book is titled The Best Writing on Mathematics 2013, edited by Mircea Pitici. New and used copies are available on Amazon- just click on the title and it'll take you to the book page.
And here's some information about Paul Erdös (pronounced something like "er dish", and the "o" should have 2 accents, not dots, but that's as close as I can get with this non-Hungarian keyboard!). He was a very interesting man.
Wikipedia
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (NYT review of his biography, has good anecdotes.)
The Erdös Number Project (Maybe you have one too!)
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| Illustration by LeUyen Pham, from The Boy Who Loved Math, by Deborah Heiligman |
1 comment:
Thanks Fiona! I have to admit the chart looks a bit like spaghetti, but it gets the point across that he was a very influential fellow! Congrats number 3!
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