{"id":2600,"date":"2013-07-12T10:42:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T16:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2013-07-12T10:44:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T16:44:46","slug":"the-boy-who-loved-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2600","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Boy Who Loved Math<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/colorimage1a.jpg\" style=\"float:right;\">Today over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I write about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/deborahheiligman.com\/\">Deborah Heiligman&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> outstanding picture book biography of famed Hungarian mathematician Paul Erd\u00f6s, illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leuyenpham.com\/\">LeUyen Pham<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called <em>The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erd\u00f6s<\/em>, and it&#8217;s a beautiful book. <\/p>\n<p>That link is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/mathall-day-every-day\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Pictured here is LeUyen&#8217;s depiction of Erd\u00f6s. <\/p>\n<p>Next week here at 7-Imp, I&#8217;ll have some more art and early sketches from her. <\/p>\n<p>Should I say that this is a picture book biography you can <em>count<\/em> on? Er, no. That&#8217;d be painful, right? <\/p>\n<p>Pretend I didn&#8217;t. Carry on. <\/p>\n<p>See you Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today over at Kirkus, I write about Deborah Heiligman&#8217;s outstanding picture book biography of famed Hungarian mathematician Paul Erd\u00f6s, illustrated by LeUyen Pham. It&#8217;s called The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erd\u00f6s, and it&#8217;s a beautiful book. That link is here. Pictured here is LeUyen&#8217;s depiction of Erd\u00f6s. Next week here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}