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I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography in Three Parts (Maa Spectrum Series) (Maa Spectrum Ser.) by Paul Richard Halmos; Mathematical Association of America is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography in Three Parts (Maa Spectrum Series) (Maa Spectrum Ser.) about?

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

Author

Paul Richard Halmos; Mathematical Association of America

Publisher

Mathematical Association of America (MAA)

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780883854457

Subjects

Mathematics, Memoir, Biography

Rating

5 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14