resipiscent rated Prose and poetry: 5 stars
Couldn't tie his shoes or turn off a faucet, Erdos was a speed freak celibate number theorist and child prodigy against whom every subsequent mathematician is measured. Hoffman turns Erdos' life and work into a genuine page-turner where other impossible mathematicians make cameo appearances making for a scary hilarious window into the human capacity for and obsession with symbolic reasoning. A book for number haters, lovers, and head-scratchers alike.
