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Adventures of a mathematician / S. M. Ulam.
- Title
- Adventures of a mathematician / S. M. Ulam.
- Author
- Ulam, Stanislaw M.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press , c1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | QA29.U4 A33 1991 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxxiv, 329 p., [22] p. of plates : ill.; 21 cm.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- collective biographies.
- Popular works
- Biographies
- Autobiographies
- Biographies.
- Note
- "Preface to the 1991 edition by William G. Mathews and Daniel O. Hirsch. Note on S.M. Ulam's mathematics by Jan Mycielski. Postcript by Françoise Ulam."
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-320).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- pt. 1. Becoming a mathematician in Poland. Childhood -- Student years -- Travels abroad -- pt. 2. A working mathematician in America. Princeton days -- Harvard years -- Transition and crisis -- The University of Wisconsin -- pt. 3. Life among the physicists. Los Alamos -- Southern California -- Back at Los Alamos -- The "super" -- The death of two pioneers -- pt. 4. The past fifteen years. Government science -- Professor again -- Random refections.
- ISBN
- 0520071549
- LCCN
- gb^91056106^
- OCLC
- 24727084
- SCSB-12078776
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library