People often look to science and mathematics as realms of rational and objective truth. Author Paul Hoffman, on the other hand, explores the eccentricity rampant in those fields. His first biography, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, profiles the strange Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdös, a man who called children "epsilons" because the Greek letter represents a small quantity in mathematics. His profile of Albert Santos-Dumont, the flamboyant Brazilian inventor who flew around the Eiffel Tower two years before the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, is aptly titled Wings of Madness
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