Erdos never tried to dilute his obsessive passion for numbers with ordinary emotional interactions, thus avoiding hurting the people around him, as Nash did. But Erdos's brand of madness was joyful, unlike Nash's despairing schizophrenia. Hoffman's book, like Sylvia Nasar's biography of John Nash, A Beautiful Mind, reveals a genius's life that transcended the merely quirky. Like a traveling salesman offering his thoughts as wares, Erdos would show up on the doorstep of one mathematician or another and announce, "My brain is open." After working through a problem, he'd move on to the next place, the next solution. He published almost 1500 scholarly papers before his death in 1996, and he probably thought more about math problems than anyone in history. Paul Erdos was an amazing and prolific mathematician whose life as a world-wandering numerical nomad was legendary.
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