I want to be a mathematician: an automathography

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I want to be a mathematician: an automathography is a memoir by Paul Halmos.

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  • Paul Halmos (March 3, 1916 – October 2, 2006) was a Hungarian-Jewish-born American mathematician who made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces). He was also recognized as a great mathematical expositor.