I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography in Three PartsThis is a book of aspirations fulfilled, those of the author and his colleagues. It tells us what it is to be a mathematician and to do mathematics. It will be read with interest and enjoyment by those in mathematics and by those who might want to know what mathematicians and mathematical careers are like. Halmos, mathematician and expositor, has contributed much to ergodic theory, algebraic logic, operator theory, and the mathematical literature in general. -- from back cover. |
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... English My father , a widower , emigrated to America when I , his youngest son , was 8 years old . When he got established , he remarried , presented us with two step sisters , and began to import us : first my two brothers , and later ...
... English My father , a widower , emigrated to America when I , his youngest son , was 8 years old . When he got established , he remarried , presented us with two step sisters , and began to import us : first my two brothers , and later ...
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... English - I might have been slightly better , but not much . I could deliver a mathematical lecture fairly well , particularly if I pre- pared for it carefully . The grammar and the pronunciation didn't come out perfect , but no utterly ...
... English - I might have been slightly better , but not much . I could deliver a mathematical lecture fairly well , particularly if I pre- pared for it carefully . The grammar and the pronunciation didn't come out perfect , but no utterly ...
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... English , and in pre- war times , when I lived in and later visited Hungary , English news- papers and books were easily available at all newsstands and bookstores . In 1964 I was told that you could still find them , and I hunted hard ...
... English , and in pre- war times , when I lived in and later visited Hungary , English news- papers and books were easily available at all newsstands and bookstores . In 1964 I was told that you could still find them , and I hunted hard ...
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