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Well he sat around all day and did math. Without a backdrop of world war 2 or a terrorist code that needs to be cracked, it wouldn't be very captivating.
by ramblerman 11y ago
Well he sat around all day and did math.
Without a backdrop of world war 2 or a terrorist code that needs to be cracked, it wouldn't be very captivating.
- david_ar 11y ago> After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month.[18] Erdős won the bet, but complained that during his abstinence, mathematics had been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine use. So there's that