Based on a National Magazine Award-winning article, this masterful biography of Hungarian-born Paul Erdos is both a vivid portrait of an eccentric genius and a layman's guide to some of this century's most startling mathematical discoveries.

Soon to be the Netflix Limited Series Unbelievable, starring Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever • Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists tell the riveting true crime story of a teenager charged with lying about having been raped—and the detectives who followed a winding path to arrive at the truth. On August 11, 2008, eighteen-year-old Marie reported that a masked ...(展开全部)

Paul Erdõs, one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, and certainly the most eccentric, was internationally recognized as a prodigy by age seventeen. Hungarian-born Erdõs believed that the meaning of life was to prove and conjecture. His work in the United States and all over the world has earned him the titles of the century's leading number theorist and the...(展开全部)

Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question. First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn’t know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he’s proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention. As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by lo...(展开全部)

汤姆•布朗二世（Tom Brown，Jr.），一位新泽西州的白人少年，自从8岁那年，在自家后院松林荒原的河岸边遇见了来自西南部印第安阿帕奇族的巫师潜近狼（Stalking Wolf），并实现了“灵境预言”中的一次命中注定的传承后，便开始将阿帕奇族古老生活智慧的教导运用到当今的现代文明之中。 如今，他是美国最著名的野外求生教练与生存专家，也是家喻户晓的“灵视追踪师”，名气更胜李昌钰。他同时为包括FBI在内的许多执法单位及紧急救难小组提供指导，也在好莱坞的电影公司担任技术顾问，其非凡的追踪技巧拯救过无数人的生命，并创造商业奇迹。 1978年，在一切因缘的起点，也就是汤姆所钟爱的松林荒原，他创建了著名的追踪师学校（Tracker School），至今已逾33年，学生近30万人。同时，他著有18本关于他的传承及野外求生技巧的畅销书，全球总销售超过50...(展开全部)

Malba Tahan is the creation of a celebrated Brazilian mathematician who was looking for a way to bring some of the mysteries and delights of mathematics to a wider public. He turned out to be a born storyteller. The adventures of Beremiz Samir, The Man Who Counted, take the reader on an exotic journey in which, time and again, he summons his extraordinary mathematical powers to...(展开全部)