附註:"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 bibliographical references (pages 319-320) and index.
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.
