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
Notes
"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."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-320) and index
