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Adventures of a mathematician

The Polish-born mathematician recalls his formative and early professional years in his pre-war homeland and his work and colleagues at Princeton, Harvard, Wisconsin, and Los Alamos
Print Book, English, ©1976
Scribner, New York, ©1976
Autobiographie
xi, 317 pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780684143910, 9780684150642, 0684143917, 0684150646
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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 reflections
library.ccsu.edu O'Connell Notes (PDF)
library.ccsu.edu Entire Brian O'Connell Collection