TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shimura,Goro
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - The Map of My Life
SN  - 9780387797151
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Springer New York
KW  - MATHEMATICS
KW  - ALGEBRA
KW  - GEOMETRY, ALGEBRAIC
KW  - MATHEMATICS_{DOLLAR}XHISTORY
KW  - NUMBER THEORY
KW  - ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
KW  - HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS
N1  - Childhood -- As a Student -- As a Mathematician -- A Long Epilogue
N2  - In this book, the author writes freely and often humorously about his life, beginning with his earliest childhood days. He describes his survival of American bombing raids when he was a teenager in Japan, his emergence as a researcher in a post-war university system that was seriously deficient, and his life as a mature mathematician in Princeton and in the international academic community. Every page of this memoir contains personal observations and striking stories. Such luminaries as Chevalley, Oppenheimer, Siegel, and Weil figure prominently in its anecdotes. Goro Shimura is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University. In 1996, he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the American Mathematical Society. He is the author of Elementary Dirichlet Series and Modular Forms (Springer 2007), Arithmeticity in the Theory of Automorphic Forms (AMS 2000), and Introduction to the Arithmetic Theory of Automorphic Functions (Princeton University Press 1971)
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79715-1
ER  -