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N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös

  • 19931993
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N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös (1993)
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N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdos is a 1993 biographical documentary about the life of mathematician Paul Erdos, directed by George Paul Csicsery.N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdos is a 1993 biographical documentary about the life of mathematician Paul Erdos, directed by George Paul Csicsery.N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdos is a 1993 biographical documentary about the life of mathematician Paul Erdos, directed by George Paul Csicsery.
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  • Director
    • George Paul Csicsery
  • Stars
    • Paul Erdös
    • Ronald Graham
    • Joel Spencer
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    • George Paul Csicsery
  • Stars
    • Paul Erdös
    • Ronald Graham
    • Joel Spencer
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    J.W.S. Cassels
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    Marta Sved
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    Tibor Gallai
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    Béla Bollobas
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    Fan Chung
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    Melvyn Nathanson
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    Laszlo Lovasz
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    Herbert Wilf
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    Tomasz Luczak
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    Andrzej Rucinski
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    Peter Winkler
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    Michael Karonski
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    Alice Fialowski
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    Gabriella Bollobas
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    Anne Davenport
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      • George Paul Csicsery
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    N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdos is a 1993 biographical documentary about the life of mathematician Paul Erdos, directed by George Paul Csicsery.
    • math
    • mathematician
    • mathematics
    • biographical documentary
    • intelligence
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      • The story of a wandering mathematician obsessed with unsolved problems.
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      • Documentary
      • Biography
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      At the end of the list of people in the film: "and various Epsilons" (Erdos's term for children).
    • Connections
      Featured in Zomergasten: Episode #20.5 (2007)

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      • United States
    • Official site
      • ZALA films
    • Language
      • English
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      • AT&T Bell Laboratories - 180 Park Avenue, Florham Park, New Jersey, USA
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