Preface to the 1991 edition
by William G. Mathews and Daniel Hirsch
Preface to the 1983 edition
Acknowledgements
A Note on S. M. Ulam’s Mathematics
by Jan Mycielski
Prologue
Part I: Becoming a Mathematician in Poland
Chapter 1. Childhood
Chapter 2. Student Years
Chapter 3. Travels Abroad
Part II: A Working Mathematician in America
Chapter 4. Princeton Days
Chapter 5. Harvard Years
Chapter 6. Transition and Crisis
Chapter 7. The University of Wisconsin
Part III: Life among the Physicists
Chapter 8. Los Alamos
Chapter 9. Southern California
Chapter 10. Back at Los Alamos
Chapter 11. The “Super”
Chapter 12. The Death of Two Pioneers
Part IV: The Past Fifteen Years
Chapter 13. Government Science
Chapter 14. Professor Again
Chapter 15. Random Reflections on Mathematics and Science
Illustrations
Postscript to Adventures
by Françoise Ulam
Selected bibliography
Index
