This book traces the history of the MIT Department of Mathematics one of the most important mathematics departments in the world through candid, in-depth, lively conversations with a select and diverse group of its senior members. The process reveals much about the motivation, path, and impact of research mathematicians in a society that owes so much to this little understood and often mystified section of its intellectual fabric, exemplified by names like Euclid, Newton, Euler, and Goedel. At a time when the mathematical experience touches and attracts more laypeople than ever, such a book contributes to our understanding and entertains through its personal approach. From the book: The usual thing is there were these Thursday colloquiums at MIT or Harvard, and even the mathematicians from Brown would come. They would invite some speaker to give a mathematical talk. And afterward there was a dinner and a party in somebody's house. If it was in one guy's field, he would make the...

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