I. Student.- 1 Reading and writing and rithmetic.- Words.- Books.-
Writing.- Languages.- Numbers.- Study or worry.- Learning English.- High
school.- 2 A college education.- Move to Chambana.- How not to be a
freshman.- Trig and analyt.- Calculus, and is there a doctor on the
faculty?.- Elementary mathematics and culture.- Mathematical daydreams and
BARBARA.- All Gaul.- A Bachelor of Science.- 3 Graduate school.- Statistics.-
The end of the affair.- Matrices.- The Dean.- First class.- Hazlett and
Netzorg.- Good morning, analysis.- Why geometry?.- 4 Learning to study.- Doob
arrives.- All work and politics.- Born again.- Other forces, other tongues.-
Prelims.- For example.- Statistics, no.- Readings and ratings.- Reprints:
Doobs and others.- Study.- 5 Learning to think.- Optional skipping.- Roller
coaster.- Jobs, no.- On my own.- The end of an era.- 6 The Institute.- The
common room.- The center of the world.- Insignificant people.- Work.- Work
and between work.- A weak paper and a pretty good book.- Collaboration.-
Measures and Harvard.- Classical mechanics.- Birthdays.- 7 Winning the war.-
Back home in Illinois.- Meetings.- Teaching at Syracuse.- Research at
Syracuse.- Radiation Laboratory.- Referee and review.- From Syracuse to
Chicago.- II. Scholar.- 8 A great university.- Eckhart Hall.- Days of glory.-
What makes a great university?.- Teaching.- Students and visitors.- 9 The
early years.- Guggenheim.- Measure Theory.- Masters exams.- Judgments.-
Jimmie Savage.- Students and courses.- The beginning of Hilbert space.- Ph.D.
students.- The Cambridge Congress.- Follow the sun.- 10 Montevideo.- Where to
go?.- Saturation in Spanish.- Room and board.- Weather and climate.- How to
get a chair.- Humanities and sciences.- Faculty of engineering.- Instituto de
Matemca.- Institute people.- Teaching in Montevideo.- Research in Uruguay.-
Spy, junior grade.- Small memories.- 11 The fabulous fifties.- Back home.- Is
formal logic mathematics?.- Boolean logic.- The road to polyadic algebras.-
All logic and all mathematics.- Logic students and logicians.- The passport
saga.- Service.- Editing.- How to be a big shot.- How to be an editor.-
Recent progress in ergodic theory.- Writing for a living.- The Institute
again.- Boolean algebras and sets.- Farewell.- III. Senior.- 12 How to
teach.- Shifting gears.- The Moore method.- Moore and covering material.- How
to be a pro.- Musings on teaching.- How to supervise.- More Ph.D. students.-
13 To Sydney, to Moscow, and back.- Sydney 1964.- Budapest 1964.- Scotland
1965.- Tourist in Moscow and Leningrad.- Life with Anosov.- Fomin and
Gelfand.- Mathematicians in Moscow.- As others see us.- 14 How to do almost
everything.- Rejections.- How to do research.- The invariant subspace
problem.- Friends can help.- How to recommend.- How to advise.- Honolulu,
here I come!.- 15 Service, one way or another.- Democracy ad absurdum.- How
to be a chairman.- How not to be a chairman.- Life in Bloomington.- Indiana
students.- Committees of one : Wabash.- Committees of one : Bulletin.- The
Monthly.- Here and there.- How to write mathematics.- How to write about von
Neumann.- How to write history?.- Coda How to be a mathematician.- Index of
Photographs.
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