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The man who loved only numbers : the story of Paul Erdos and the search for mathematical truth
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The man who loved only numbers : the story of Paul Erdos and the search for mathematical truth

by Paul Hoffman

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Accession 5777 ISBN — Publisher Fourth Estate
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