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ABSTRACT
Saunders Mac Lane was an extraordinary mathematician, a dedicated teacher, and a good citizen who cared deeply about the values of science and education. In his autobiography, he gives us a glimpse of his "life and times," mixing the highly personal with professional observations. His recollections bring to life a century of extraordinary accomplis
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part One: Early Years
chapter 1|10 pages
Heresy
chapter 2|8 pages
High School
chapter 3|10 pages
Undergraduate at Yale
chapter 4|4 pages
Universal Knowledge and New Knowledge
chapter 5|8 pages
The University of Chicago, 1930
chapter 6|20 pages
Germany 1931-33
part |2 pages
Part Two: First Teaching
chapter 7|10 pages
Yale and Harvard
chapter 8|6 pages
Cornell and Chicago
chapter 9|2 pages
Surveying Modern Algebra
chapter 10|4 pages
Algebraic Functions
chapter 11|4 pages
First Graduate Students
part |2 pages
Part Three: Collaborative Research
chapter 12|6 pages
Crossed Product Algebras and Group Extension
chapter 13|6 pages
Eilenberg Enters
chapter 14|6 pages
Naturality
part |2 pages
Part Four: The War Years
chapter 15|4 pages
Much More Applied Math
chapter 16|2 pages
Cynthia Enters
chapter 17|4 pages
War Research: Roll, Pitch, and Yaw
part |2 pages
Part Five: Eilenberg and Mac Lane
chapter 18|2 pages
Cautiously Publishing Category Theory
chapter 19|4 pages
The Cohomology of Groups
chapter 20|2 pages
Eilenberg-Mac Lane Spaces
part |2 pages
Part Six: Harvard Years
chapter 21|6 pages
Professor at Harvard
chapter 22|2 pages
University Presidents
chapter 23|4 pages
Jib and Mainsail
chapter 24|8 pages
Dorothy
chapter 25|10 pages
Have Guggenheim, Will Travel
part |2 pages
Part Seven: Chicago in the Fifties
chapter 26|4 pages
Return to Chicago
chapter 27|6 pages
The Stone Age at Chicago
chapter 28|6 pages
The Stone Age Comes to an End
chapter 29|6 pages
Hutchins and the University
chapter 30|2 pages
The College Mathematics Staff
chapter 31|4 pages
Univeral Algebra and Think Tanks
part |2 pages
Part Eight: Mathematical Developments
chapter 32|4 pages
Mathematical Organizations
chapter 33|4 pages
Bourbaki-the Legend
chapter 34|4 pages
The New Math
chapter 35|2 pages
Categories Expand
chapter 36|8 pages
The Grand Tour of Europe, 1954
chapter 37|6 pages
Paris and Cartan. 1955-56
part |2 pages
Part Nine: National Academy of Science
chapter 38|2 pages
Membership in the National Academy of Sciences
chapter 39|4 pages
The National Research Council
chapter 40|2 pages
The Academy Proceedings
part |2 pages
Part Ten: The Sixties and Beyond
chapter 41|2 pages
Homological Algebra
chapter 42|4 pages
Categories: La Jolla & Columbia
chapter 43|2 pages
Geometrical Mechanics
chapter 44|4 pages
Outdoors on the Indiana Dunes
chapter 45|4 pages
Categories at Work
part |2 pages
Part Eleven: National Science Policy
chapter 46|4 pages
As President of the AMS
chapter 47|6 pages
Academy Reports
chapter 48|2 pages
George Kistiakowski
chapter 49|12 pages
Report Review
chapter 50|8 pages
The National Science Board
chapter 51|4 pages
Science Policy
part |2 pages
Part Twelve: Travels
chapter 52|6 pages
Visits to China
chapter 53|4 pages
Anniversary at the Dunes, 1983
chapter 54|4 pages
Dorothy’s Delights
part |2 pages
Part Thirteen: Advising
chapter 55|8 pages
Chicago Graduate Students
chapter 56|2 pages
Friends and Mentors
chapter 57|2 pages
Rating Research
chapter 58|2 pages
The NAS Research Roundtable
part |2 pages
Part Fourteen: Later Developments
chapter 59|2 pages
The Philosophy of Mathematics
chapter 60|6 pages
Second Marriage
chapter 61|4 pages
International Category Conferences
part |2 pages
Part Fifteen: Contemplating
