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I want to be a mathematician : an automathography / Paul R. Halmos.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Halmos, Paul R. (Paul Richard), 1916-2006, author.
- Series:
- Spectrum, 2638-9045 ; v. 61
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Halmos, Paul R. (Paul Richard), 1916-2006.
- Halmos, Paul R.
- Mathematicians--United States--Biography.
- Mathematicians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 421 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer-Verlag, c1985.
- System Details:
- Mode of access : World Wide Web
- Contents:
- CHAPTER 1. Reading and writing and 'rithmetic CHAPTER 2. A college education CHAPTER 3. Graduate school CHAPTER 4. Learning to study CHAPTER 5. Learning to think CHAPTER 6. The Institute CHAPTER 7. Winning the war CHAPTER 8. A great university CHAPTER 9. The early years CHAPTER 10. Montevideo CHAPTER 11. The fabulous fifties CHAPTER 12. How to teach CHAPTER 13. To Sydney, to Moscow, and back CHAPTER 14. How to do almost everything CHAPTER 15. Service, one way or another How to be a mathematician
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Electronic reproduction. Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society. 2012
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781470459161 (online)
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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