The Unreal Life of Oscar Zariski

1. That Darling Old Lady Kobrin and Chernigov 1899– 1918

2. Birds Whirling like Numbers Kiev 1918–1920

3. Three Great Mathematicians Rome 1921–1926

4. Reading Pushkin and Dante

5. “Oscar, You Are Not One of Us.”

6. Walking with Lefschetz Baltimore 1927–1928

7. A Voyage of Discovery 1928–1932

8. “The Algebra Which Sheds Light on Geometry” 1932–1935

9. A Citizen of the World of Mathematics 1935–1937

10. The Resolution of Some Singularities

11. A Land of Intellectual Cannibals 1939–1944

12. “A Superb Audience of One … André Weil” São Paulo 1945

13. Normal Points of a Variety Cambridge 1947

14. The Pure Pleasure of It

15. An Attack on the Theory of Linear Systems 1950–1956

16. Tying Bells on Characteristic Zero 1957–1961

17. A Feeling of Awe 1962–1974

18. The Depth of His Attachment

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