My brain is open: Math genius Erdos

Author: (USA) Schecter
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: This book is a biography of the renowned mathematician Paul Erd?s. Erd?s was one of the greatest mathematicians in the 20th century and undoubtedly one of the most eccentric and unique. Born into a Hungarian Jewish family renowned for its mathematical talent and a scientific elite, Erd?s was known as a child prodigy. At the age of 17, he published a mathematical paper, collaborating with over 450 people in his lifetime and publishing 1,500 research papers. Erd?s faced many hardships throughout 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 due to correspondence with the Chinese mathematician Hua Luogeng, leading to his expulsion from the United States by McCarthyists. He spent the rest of his life wandering the world. Erd?s remained unmarried and had no fixed occupation, dedicating his entire life to science. He worked 18 to 19 hours a day, traveling around the world throughout the year to discuss mathematical problems with colleagues. His mind was constantly filled with mathematical problems, theorems, conjectures, and proofs. The book also introduces some of the world-famous problems that Erd?s was concerned with, such as the Goldbach Conjecture, Fermat's Last Theorem, and many anecdotes from the history of mathematics. Erd?s was a scientist with a sense of justice, loving his country, his mother, and his children. To him, mathematics was his life, his everything. He had an open mind and a rich, colorful life. Professor Wang Yuan, an academician 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.