ULAM S[tanislaw] M. - Adventures of a Mathematician. Illustrated with photographs. New York [cop. 1976]. Charles Scribner's Sons. 8, pp. XI, [1], 317. broch.
Cover scuffs, spine and front cover corner crease. First edition (came out simultaneously with the Canadian edition) of the autobiography of Stanislaw Ulam (1909-1984) - Polish mathematician, representative of the Lviv school of mathematics, member of the team of scholars working on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, co-inventor of the American thermoelectric bomb, author of many important achievements in several areas of mathematics: topology, multiplicity theory, measure theory, numerical methods. This edition includes an erroneous caption for a 1939 photo of Gdynia - it confuses Joseph's father with Simon's uncle (Ulam wrote about the mistake in a letter offered at the 136th Rara Avis auction). In 2020, a biographical film "Geniuses" was made based on the book, showing Ulam from his arrival in the US in 1936 to the invention of the hydrogen bomb.
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