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My only question is why hasn't there been a movie made about him yet.

You likely mean something in the vein of The Theory of Everything or The Imitation Game rather than a straight documentary but just in case documentaries count: it's called N is a Number.

Incidentally, through his appearance in N is a Number, Erdös has a Bacon number of 3.

Well he sat around all day and did math.

Without a backdrop of world war 2 or a terrorist code that needs to be cracked, it wouldn't be very captivating.

> After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month.[18] Erdős won the bet, but complained that during his abstinence, mathematics had been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine use.

So there's that

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