I Want to be a Mathematician

I. Student.- 1 Reading and writing and’ rithmetic.- 2 A college education.- 3 Graduate school.- 4 Learning to study.- 5 Learning to think.- 6 The Institute.- 7 Winning the war.- II. Scholar.- 8 A great university.- 9 The early years.- 10 Montevideo.- 11 The fabulous fifties.- III. Senior.- 12 How to teach.- 13 To Sydney, to Moscow, and back.- 14 How to do almost everything.- 15 Service, one way or another.- Coda How to be a mathematician.- Index of Photographs.