In this book the author writes freely and often humorously about his lifebeginning with his earliest childhood days. He describes his survival ofAmerican bombin... » 

In this book the author writes freely and often humorously about his lifebeginning with his earliest childhood days. He describes his survival ofAmerican bombing raids when he was a teenager in Japan his emergence as aresearcher in a postwar university system that was seriously deficient andhis life as a mature mathematician in Princeton and in the internationalacademic community. Every page of this memoir contains personal observationsand striking stories. Such luminaries as Chevalley Oppenheimer Siegel andWeil figure prominently in its anecdotes. Goro Shimura is Professor Emeritus ofMathematics at Princeton University. In 1996 he received the Leroy P. SteelePrize for Lifetime Achievement from the American Mathematical Society. He isthe author of Elementary Dirichlet Series and Modular Forms Springer 2007Arithmeticity in the Theory of Automorphic Forms AMS 2000 and Introductionto the Arithmetic Theory of Automorphic Functions Princeton University Press1971. TOCPreface. Childhood. As a student. As a mathematician. A longepilogue. Appendix. Afterword. «