I. Student -- 1 Reading and writing andโ{128}{153} rithmetic -- 2 A college education -- 3 Graduate school -- 4 Learning to study -- 5 Learning to think -- 6 The Institute -- 7 Winning the war -- II. Scholar -- 8 A great university -- 9 The early years -- 10 Montevideo -- 11 The fabulous fifties -- III. Senior -- 12 How to teach -- 13 To Sydney, to Moscow, and back -- 14 How to do almost everything -- 15 Service, one way or another -- Coda How to be a mathematician -- Index of Photographs