Paul Erdös, The Maverick Genius

One of the finest minds in the history of mathematics, Erdös chose as his epitaph the self-deprecating Hungarian phrase “Finally I am becoming stupider no more.” Read more about him at:

http://www.jspace.com/news/paul-erdos-maverick-genius/

Greatest Mathematicians Ever

Here is a look into the biographies of the Greatest Mathematicians Ever:

http://fabpedigree.com/james/mathmen.htm

N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös

This documentary tells the story of a wandering mathematician obsessed with unsolved problems..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya2IFgRDbo4

The truth of infinite series

"If you disregard the very simplest cases, there is in all of mathematics not a single infinite series whose sum has been rigorously determined. In other words, the most important parts of mathematics stand without a foundation"

- Niels H. Abel (1802 - 1829)

After 100 Years, Ramanujan Gap Filled

A century ago, Srinivasa Ramanujan and G. H. Hardy started a famous correspondence about mathematics so amazing that Hardy described it as “scarcely possible to believe.” In 1919 Ramanujan was deathly ill while on a long ride back to India, from February 27 to March 13 on the steamship Nagoya. All he had was a pen and pad of paper and he wanted to write down his equations before he died. He wrote an incomplete equation which has been solved after a gap of 100 years:

http://blog.wolfram.com/2013/05/01/after-100-years-ramanujan-gap-filled/

Happy Birthday Euler

Without question, Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) ranks among history's greatest mathematicians. Over six decades of unmatched productivity, and despite a visual impairment that grew ever worse, charted the course of mathematics throughout the eighteenth century and beyond. His reputation is captured in Laplace's famous admonition, "Read Euler, read Euler. He is the master of us all."

More Euler resources: 

V. S. Varadarajan writes about the many-sided genius in "Euler Through Time: A New Look at Old Themes" http://www.ams.org/bookstore-getitem/item=EULER

The MAA Euler Archive http://eulerarchive.maa.org/

Ed Sandifer's “How Euler Did It” column archive http://www.maa.org/news/howeulerdidit.html

Check out winners of MAA’s Euler Book Prize http://www.maa.org/awards/eulerbook.html

Read Loci: Convergence article “Euler Squares” by Elaine Young http://bit.ly/1179R4A

Euler books in the MAA Store http://bit.ly/10XAU3f