Fortress Mathematica
Brian Rotman: John Nash and Paul Erdos, 17 September 1998
The Man who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth
by Paul Hoffman.
Fourth Estate, 320 pp., £12.99, July 1998,1 85702 811 2 Show More
by Paul Hoffman.
Fourth Estate, 320 pp., £12.99, July 1998,
Proofs from the Book
by Martin Aigner and Günter Ziegler.
Springer, 210 pp., £19, August 1998,3 540 63698 6 Show More
by Martin Aigner and Günter Ziegler.
Springer, 210 pp., £19, August 1998,
A Beautiful Mind: Genius and Schizophrenia in the Life of John Nash
by Sylvia Nasar.
Faber, 464 pp., £17.99, September 1998,0 571 17794 8 Show More
by Sylvia Nasar.
Faber, 464 pp., £17.99, September 1998,
“... from Erdös, it might well be John Forbes Nash, 1994 Nobel Laureate in Economics, the subject of Sylvia Nasar’s biography. Where Erdös was impish, kind, open to all and monkishly pure, Nash was overbearing, secretive and abrasive, with a stormy marriage, an illegitimate son and several complicated liaisons with men. Erdös was a problem-solver ... ”
