The Boy Who Loved math by Deborah Heiligman

This book is the first and the only child friendly biography we have read till now about a mathematician . Book was recommended by a dear friend for my daughter , since dd is a hater of maths , she had a fear that maths is the toughest of all things in the world and this one  came  as a rescue .

The story goes like this....

Paul Erdos lived in Budapest , Hungary with his mama. His mother was a maths teacher, one of the reason why he loved maths ,when she goes for work she used to leave  Paul  with fraulein , fraulein is a rule maker , she keeps rules for everything when to eat, when to read , sleep etc , Paul hated rules.

So Paul started counting how many days are there for summer vacation , so that mama could be with him all day and he can escape from fraulein , that is how all started , he loved counting , he loved numbers , he loved to make new discovery with numbers , at 4 years started asking people their date of birth and time ,with that he can calculate and say how many seconds they are alive in the world from the moment they were born .

He loved prime numbers , when he was 20 he was a famous mathematician and people called him a Magician from Budapest, but even at that age he doesn't know to butter his bread, tie his shoes etc .He can't follow rules so he invented his own way of living . 

How he travelled around the world and how he managed to do things on his own and the discoveries he made along with fellow mathematicians and what is Erdos number and how it is still popular between the mathematicians is the rest of the story .

This is not a book about math, this is about a boy and his passion , it teaches about ones dedication towards his passion ,We learnt a lot of new Words from the book for ex . Epsilon , this is what Paul refers to the kids of mathematicians he visit ( Epsilon means very small amount in math) 

Every page in the book is illustrated with a prime number , In the last page there is a note from the illustrator about various types of prime numbers he used in illustrations on every single page . Doesn't heard of those types and not even about Paul unless we read this book . 

This book will be a definite visual treat for all ,those beautiful and informational illustrations make this a great gift for all those who love numbers .