Some of my favorite autobiographical works: Ben Franklin's Autobiography Trollope's Autobiography Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology Durrell's My Family and Other Animals Johnson's Wing Leader Rousseau's Confessions Caesar's Conquest of Gaul Xenophon's Persian Expedition
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Also fun reads: Halmos' I want to be a mathematician and Ulam's Adventures of a mathematician.
I bought Halmos's book on your recommendation, and it's fabulous, probably the best book I've read this year. Do you have any other recommendations?
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If you liked Halmos you'll like Indiscrete Thoughts, by Gian-Carlo Rota. Discrete Thoughts is good too.
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Sure, Paul! Two other books that I found quite refreshing, roughly centered around mathematics and its personae, but of a slightly different flavor - Logicomix by Doxiadis & Papadimitriou and Ralph P. Boas' Lion Hunting and Other Mathematical Pursuits.
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