TY - BOOK AU - Heiligman,Deborah AU - Pham,LeUyen TI - The boy who loved math: the improbable life of Paul Erdős SN - 9781596433076 (hardback) AV - QA29.E68 H45 2013 U1 - 510.92B 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Roaring Brook Press KW - Erdős, Paul, KW - Mathematicians KW - Hungary KW - Biography KW - Juvenile literature KW - Picture books for children N1 - 3-8 N2 - Growing up in Hungary during WWI, Erdos tried school but chafed at the rules and convinced his mother that he should study at home. He was fascinated by numbers from an early age, and by the time he was 20, he was known as The Magician from Budapest. Unable to do common tasks such as cooking, laundry, or driving, he spent his adult life flying around the world, staying with other mathematicians, and working collaboratively on challenging math problems ER -