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>There is a core of sadness there. 2nd world war was rough on a whole generation of Europeans, and the writer George Perec exhibited similar frenetic activity a
by kken 13y ago
>There is a core of sadness there. 2nd world war was rough on a whole generation of Europeans, and the writer George Perec exhibited similar frenetic activity and the use of arcane games to fend things off? Erdos's chosen game field was more useful of course.
I think you are completely missing the point here. Erdős chose to live like that. The title "the man who only loved numbers" is not a hyperbole.
- keithpeter 13y agoOur choices may not always be made for reasons we can articulate or even know. Simon Norton (finite group theory, worked with Conway) also finds close companionship with numbers and had a less intensely isolated childhood than Erdos but one that has similarities. I think we may have to agree to disagree here.