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"Hoffman's Erdos is number one", Nature, 17 June 1999, page 654.
This year's winner of the Rhone-Poulenc Prize for Science Books went to Paul Hoffman's The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth. Another book about a mathematician also appeared among the six finalists for the prestigious award: A Beautiful Mind, by Sylvia Nasar, which is a biography of the mathematician John Nash, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics.
--- Allyn Jackson
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