Mathematician

==Mathematical autobiographies==
Several well known mathematicians have written autobiographies in part to explain to a general audience what it is about mathematics that has made them want to devote their lives to its study. These provide some of the best glimpses into what it means to be a mathematician. The following list contains some works that are not autobiographies, but rather essays on mathematics and mathematicians with strong autobiographical elements.

* ''The Book of My Life'' – [[Girolamo Cardano]]<ref>{{Citation |last=Cardano |first=Girolamo |title=The Book of My Life (De Vita Propria Liber) |year=2002 |publisher=The New York Review of Books |isbn=1-59017-016-4 |author-link=Girolamo Cardano}}</ref>
* ''[[A Mathematician's Apology]]'' - [[G.H. Hardy]]<ref>{{harvnb|Hardy|2012}}</ref>
* ''[[A Mathematician's Miscellany]]'' (republished as Littlewood's miscellany) - [[J. E. Littlewood]]<ref>{{Citation |last=Littlewood |first=J. E. |title=Littlewood's miscellany |url=https://archive.org/details/littlewoodsmisce0000litt |year=1990 |editor-last=Béla Bollobás |orig-year=Originally ''A Mathematician's Miscellany'' published in 1953 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-33702 X |author-link=J. E. Littlewood |url-access=registration}}</ref>
* ''I Am a Mathematician'' - [[Norbert Wiener]]<ref>{{Citation |last=Wiener |first=Norbert |title=I Am a Mathematician / The Later Life of a Prodigy |year=1956 |publisher=The M.I.T. Press |isbn=0-262-73007-3}}</ref>
* ''I Want to be a Mathematician'' - [[Paul R. Halmos]]
* ''Adventures of a Mathematician'' - [[Stanislaw Ulam]]<ref>{{Citation |last=Ulam |first=S. M. |title=Adventures of a Mathematician |url=https://archive.org/details/adventuresofmath0000ulam |year=1976 |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |isbn=0-684-14391-7 |url-access=registration}}</ref>
* ''Enigmas of Chance'' - [[Mark Kac]]<ref>{{Citation |last=Kac |first=Mark |title=Enigmas of Chance / An Autobiography |year=1987 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=0-520-05986-7}}</ref>
* ''Random Curves'' - [[Neal Koblitz]]
* ''[[Edward Frenkel#Love and Math|Love and Math]]'' - [[Edward Frenkel]]
* ''Mathematics Without Apologies'' - [[Michael Harris (mathematician)|Michael Harris]]<ref>{{Citation |last=Harris |first=Michael |title=Mathematics without apologies / portrait of a problematic vocation |year=2015 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-15423-7}}</ref>