A number of years ago, Harriet Sheridan, then Dean of Brown
University, organized a series oflectures in which individual
faculty members described how it came about that they entered their
various fields. I was invited to participate in this series and
found in the invitation an opportunity to recall events going back
to my early teens. The lecture was well received and its reception
encouraged me to work up an expanded version. My manuscript lay
dormant all these years. In the meanwhile, sufficiently many other
mathematical experiences and encounters accumulated to make this
little book. My 1981 lecture is the basis of the first piece:
"Napoleon's Theorem. " Although there is a connection between the
first piece and the second, the four pieces here are essentially
independent. The sec ond piece, "Carpenter and the Napoleon
Ascription," has as its object a full description of a certain type
of scholar-storyteller (of whom I have known and admired several).
It is a pastiche, contain ing a salad bar selection blended
together by my own imagination. This piece purports, as a secondary
goal, to present a solution to a certain unsolved historical
problem raised in the first piece. The third piece, "The Man Who
Began His Lectures with 'Namely'," is a short reminiscence of
Stefan Bergman, one of my teachers of graduate mathematics.
Bergman, a remarkable person ality, was born in Poland and came to
the United States in 1939."
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