The Man Who Loved Only Numbers don't tell

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers don't tell"A funny, marvelously readable portrait of one of the most brilliant and eccentric men in history." The Seattle Times Paul Erdos was an amazing and prolific mathematician whose life as a world wandering numerical nomad was legendary. He published almost 1500 scholarly papers before his death in 1996, and he probably thought more about math problems than anyone in history. Like a traveling salesman offering his thoughts as wares, Erdos would show up on

with the freedom to probe their innermost thoughts

the golden youth

the architecture

a job at Nacho's is an opportunity for just that—a chance at a normal life

the past doesn't stay there

who stand ready to serve day and night on the line between life and death for every one of us

one of the finest photojournalists and combat photographers of the twentieth century

Supernatural experience may mean hearing His voice

A wonderfully eccentric cast of characters frightens the audience

But when the day is done and the sun goes down

Albom becomes involved with a Detroit pastor—a reformed drug dealer and convict—who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof

a treacherous climb up an iceberg in Alaska