My mind is open

Author: (American) B. Schechter, Written by, Translated by Wang Yuan, Li Wenlin
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Publication Date: 2002-04-01
Features: This book is a biography of the renowned mathematician Paul Erd?s. Erd?s was one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century and undoubtedly one of the most eccentric and unique. Born into a Hungarian Jewish family known for its mathematical talent and a family of scientific elites, Erd?s was called a child prodigy from a young age. At the age of 17, he published a mathematical paper, collaborating with over 450 people in his lifetime and publishing 1,500 works. Erd?s faced many hardships in his life. As a Jew, he was persecuted by the Nazis and forced to flee abroad. In the 1950s, he was suspected of being a communist sympathizer and pro-China due to correspondence with Hua Luogeng, leading the McCarthyists in the U.S. to expel him, forcing him to wander the world for the rest of his life. Erd?s remained unmarried and had no fixed profession, dedicating his entire life to science. He worked 18 to 19 hours a day, traveling all over the world to discuss mathematical problems with colleagues. His mind was always filled with mathematical problems, theorems, conjectures, and proofs. The book also introduces some of the world's most famous problems that Erd?s was concerned with, such as Goldbach's conjecture, Fermat's Last Theorem, and many anecdotes from the history of mathematics. Erd?s was a just scientist who loved his country, his mother, and his children. For him, mathematics was his life, his everything. He had an open mind and a rich and diverse life. Professor Wang Yuan, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a famous mathematician, personally participated in and organized the translation of this book. It is a precious gift from the older generation of scientists to the.