Why read I Want to Be a Mathematician?

Book cover of I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography in Three Parts (Maa Spectrum Series)

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"I Want To Be A Mathematician" is an account of the author's life as a mathematician. It tells us what it is like 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…

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1 author picked I Want to Be a Mathematician as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Gary Chartrand

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Told by one of the most famous orators and expositors of mathematics, Paul Halmos tells us what it’s like being a mathematician – at least what it was like for him being a mathematician. While I was fortunate to have had a conversation with such a unique person (about writing mathematics), it is even more fortunate that he has done many of us a favor by writing this book.

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