The boy who loved math : the improbable life of Paul Erdos

Heiligman, Deborah (author.). Pham, LeUyen, (illustrator.).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781596433076 (hardcover)
ISBN: 1596433078 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9780545703055
Physical Description: print
37 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: New York : Roaring Brook Press, [2013]
Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

General Note:	Audience 3-8.
Target Audience Note:	550 Lexile. AD 550 Lexile. AD550L Lexile Decoding demand: 78 (high) Semantic demand: 90 (very high) Syntactic demand: 79 (high) Structure demand: 82 (very high) Lexile
Awards Note:	Young Hoosier Book 4-6 Award nominee, 2015-2016 Young Hoosier Book Intermediate Award nominee, 2015-2016