Winning the war

Paul R. Halmos
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Paul R. Halmos: University of Santa Clara, Department of Mathematics

Chapter Chapter 7 in I Want to be a Mathematician, 1985, pp 105-123 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Pearl Harbor day was December 7, 1941; for the next 3½ years the U.S. was at war. The war affected everything and everybody—sometimes only a little and sometimes a lot. There was the draft, for one thing—all the men of my age group were affected by that. Only a few active research mathematicians were drafted, but enough that we were all aware of the possibilities. Most of us were deferred throughout the war; we were badly needed as teachers. I knew, I thought I knew, that if I were to be called, I would fail the physical exam (because of my bad foot)—for me the draft was only a vague threat on the horizon.

Keywords: Mathematics Department; Radiation Laboratory; Pythagorean Theorem; Pearl Harbor; Foreign Accent (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-1084-9_7

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