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I Want to Be a Mathematician: A Conversation with Paul …
www.ams.orgcerpt from his book I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography, after which this present work was named. The last few pages of his book speak eloquently both about his own life and about the life of a mathematician. All these prescriptions and descrip-tions about how to be a mathemati-cian arose, inevitably, from my own attempts to become ...
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www.maths.cam.ac.ukThe man who loved only numbers Paul Ho man (Fourth Estate, 1999) An excellent biography of Paul Erd os, one of the most proli c mathematicians of all time. Erd os wrote over 1500 papers (about 10 times the normal number for a mathematician) and collaborated with 485 other mathematicians.