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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Page 70
... keep changing the notation to my own , I get a feeling of being creative , tiny but non - zero - even before I understand what's going on , and long before I can generalize it , improve it , or apply it , I am already active , I am ...
... keep changing the notation to my own , I get a feeling of being creative , tiny but non - zero - even before I understand what's going on , and long before I can generalize it , improve it , or apply it , I am already active , I am ...
Page 238
... keeps coming out and people keep buying it — and I cannot quarrel with success . But I don't enjoy reading it . Being furious with Flanagan was not a full - time occupation . At about the same time as I was writing my Bourbaki piece , I ...
... keeps coming out and people keep buying it — and I cannot quarrel with success . But I don't enjoy reading it . Being furious with Flanagan was not a full - time occupation . At about the same time as I was writing my Bourbaki piece , I ...
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... keep carrying those hods . If you set out to be a mathematician , you must learn the profession , every part of it , and then work at it , pro- fess it , live it as best you can . If you keep asking " what's there in it for me ? " , you ...
... keep carrying those hods . If you set out to be a mathematician , you must learn the profession , every part of it , and then work at it , pro- fess it , live it as best you can . If you keep asking " what's there in it for me ? " , you ...
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