The Man Who Set Mathematics Back a Month
No house. No job. No checkbook. Two half-empty suitcases, 1,500 papers, 511 collaborators, and a 4:30 a.m. greeting of "Let n be an integer." Paul Erdős ran on Benzedrine and bar mitzvahs — the homeless prince of twentieth-century mathematics.
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