I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography |
Contents
Small memories | 197 |
Boolean logic | 206 |
Logic students and logicians | 213 |
Service | 219 |
How to be an editor | 228 |
Recent progress in ergodic theory | 235 |
Boolean algebras and sets | 243 |
CHAPTER 12 | 253 |
Other forces other tongues | 57 |
Statistics no | 64 |
CHAPTER 5 | 74 |
On my own | 80 |
The center of the world | 88 |
A weak paper and a pretty good book | 95 |
Birthdays | 101 |
Back home in Illinois | 105 |
Research at Syracuse | 111 |
Referee and review | 118 |
CHAPTER 8 | 127 |
Teaching | 133 |
CHAPTER 9 | 140 |
Judgments | 146 |
Students and courses | 152 |
students | 159 |
CHAPTER 10 | 167 |
Weather and climate | 177 |
Instituto de Matemática | 184 |
Research in Uruguay | 191 |
Moore and covering material | 260 |
Musings on teaching | 269 |
More Ph D students | 275 |
Budapest 1964 | 284 |
Scotland 1965 | 290 |
Life with Anosov | 301 |
Mathematicians in Moscow | 308 |
As others see us | 315 |
How to do research | 321 |
Friends can help | 329 |
How to advise | 339 |
CHAPTER 15 | 349 |
How not to be a chairman | 356 |
Life in Bloomington | 363 |
Wabash | 372 |
The Monthly | 379 |
How to write mathematics | 390 |
How to write history? | 397 |
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