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,
“... results, I told him proudly, in the partition calculus he’d invented with his fellow Hungarian Richard Rado; I was also trying to settle a conjecture in infinite combinatorics – that there was no infinite descending sequence of countable order types. He ignored the first, questioned me about the second, thought for a few mom ents, then shrugged – which ... ”