I have read and enjoyed some of the other books already mentioned and would add: * Paul R. Halmos's "I Want to Be a Mathematician... an automathography: http:/

I have read and enjoyed some of the other books already mentioned and would add: * Paul R. Halmos's "I Want to Be a Mathematician... an automathography: http://www.amazon.com/Want-Be-Mathematician-Automathography-Spectrum/dp/0883854457/ http://www.amazon.com/Want-Be-Mathematician-Automathography-... * Frederick Mosteller's "The Pleasures of Statistics: The Autobiography of Frederick Mosteller": http://www.amazon.com/Pleasures-Statistics-Autobiography-Frederick-Mosteller/dp/0387779558/ http://www.amazon.com/Pleasures-Statistics-Autobiography-Fre...