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Paul Hoffman: The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of  Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth (1999)

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers is a biography of mathematician Paul Erdős written by …

"What would you say to Jesus if you saw him on the street?" Erdos said he'd ask Jesus if the Continuum Hypothesis was true. "And there would be three possible answers for Jesus," Erdos said. "He could say, 'Godel and Cohen already taught you everything which is to be known about it.' The second answer would be, 'Yes, there is an answer but unfortunately your brain isn't sufficiently developed yet to know the answer.' And Jesus could give a third answer: 'The Father, the Holy Ghost, and I have been thinking about that long before creation, but we haven't yet come to a conclusion.' Perhaps this is the nicest answer.”

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