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N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős

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Genre
  
Documentary, Biography

Producer
  
George Paul Csicsery

Country
  
USA

7.3/10
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4.6/5
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Director
  
George Paul Csicsery

Music director
  
Mark Adler

Duration
  

Language
  
English

N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdos movie poster
Release date
  
1993

Cast
  
Paul Erdos
,
Fan Chung
,
Ronald Graham
,
Joel Spencer
,
Bela Bollobas

Similar movies
  
A Brief History of Time (1991), Where the Heart Roams (1987), Fermats Room (2007)

Tagline
  
The story of a wandering mathematician obsessed with unsolved problems.

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N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős is a 1993 biographical documentary about the life of mathematician Paul Erdős, directed by George Paul Csicsery.

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The film was made between 1988 and 1991, capturing Erdős in various countries along with some of his numerous collaborators. It covers his unusual career, his personal life, and many of his recurring jokes and anecdotes, including that of Erdős numbers.

The film won the Gold Apple Award (National Educational Film & Video Festival), and the Gold Plaque Award (Science/Nature, Documentary category, Chicago International Film Festival).

References

N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős Wikipedia