I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography in Three Parts

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Mathematical Association of America, 1985 - Biography & Autobiography - 421 pages
This 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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