He says in the page 114 of his autobiography that he was responsible for the null set symbol ( Ø ) and it came from the Norwegian alphabet, with which he alone among the Bourbaki group was familiar.

* In his autobiography, Malcolm X says that during his burglary career he once played Russian roulette, pulling the trigger three times in a row to convince his partners in crime that he was not afraid to die.

Here are also more songs about past loves ; his ex-wife Carrie Fisher says in her autobiography Wishful Drinking that the song " She Moves On " is about her.

In her autobiography, she says that between 1989 and 1991, she became increasingly obsessed with food and her weight and continued to slowly and steadily lose weight.

In his autobiography Fringe Benefits, writer Donough O ' Brien says that the original was written in August 1939 by his father, Toby O ' Brien, as British propaganda.

( In Harpo's autobiography, he says that mother Minnie Marx sent him the harp.

Buffett is currently writing a follow-up to his autobiography A Pirate Looks at Fifty, which he says may take up to ten years to write and complete.

( Peter Wright mentions in his book Spycatcher that Klop was possibly the spy known as U35 ; Ustinov says in his autobiography that his father hosted secret meetings of senior British and German officials at their London home.

In her autobiography (" Climbing the Bookshelves ") Williams says that "... by the spring of 1949 I was in love with him, and he, a little, with me ...".

Although the film's title card says " Tennessee Williams ' Baby Doll ", and the film is based on Williams ' one-act play 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, in his autobiography director Elia Kazan claimed that Williams was only " half-heartedly " involved in writing the screenplay, of which Kazan himself actually wrote the majority.

In his autobiography he says " I became a vegetarian because I was pers ­ ed that life is as valid for other creatures as it is for humans.

His autobiography says that he was born at his maternal grandparents ' farm at Coedcanlas on the estuary of the River Cleddau, roughly a mile north-west of Lawrenny.

Bruford says in his autobiography that he came up with the title to describe the state of the band itself, as he had with its predecessor Fragile.

O ' Neill says that she wrote this autobiography ( her first book ) "… at the prompting of her children.

In his 2010 autobiography Life, Keith Richards says ( p. 92 ): " Ian Stewart.

Adrian says he wants to start an autobiography but she says that other people will find him uninteresting.

Duff McKagan says in his autobiography, It's So Easy ( and other Lies ), that " the crowd noise ... is from a 1970's rock festival called the Texxas Jam.

In his autobiography, Gascoigne says that around this time he started exhibiting twitches and symptoms of Obsessive compulsive disorder.

" However in his autobiography Rush says that this was a joke made up by Kenny Dalglish, then in an interview published in The Irish Times in 2008, claimed that the quote was in fact fictional.

Biographer Clarice Stasz states that it is " not autobiography ," but speaks of his " frank borrowing from his life with Charmian " and says it is " psychologically valid as a mirror of events during winter 1912 – 13.

As it says in his autobiography, " I was too American to fit into Chinatown, and too Chinese to fit in anywhere else.

In the Hanoi Rocks autobiography " All Those Wasted Years " Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett says " The Hollywood scene changed in just one night after people saw the pictures of Hanoi Rocks.

In her second autobiography, Worth Fighting For, Copps had Crosbie write an introduction in which he says " I write this Introduction to her new book as a tribute to a feisty, sometimes ferocious, feminist protagonist, never shy or retiring but redoubtable political personality.

( The only critical edition of Ibn Sina's autobiography, supplemented with material from a biography by his student Abu ' Ubayd al-Juzjani.

* In 1980, Haley began working on an autobiography entitled The Life and Times of Bill Haley but died after completing only 100 pages.

" The Lita Grey affair was soon forgotten, but Chaplin was deeply affected by it: the stress of the ordeal turned his hair white, and both his second wife and The Circus received only a passing mention in his autobiography.

[...] Not only did he become a well-known patron of expressionist art: locked in Clos des Mésanges he began an intensive self-improvement course in classical music and literature, and started work on an autobiography ".

Although this offered great opportunities, he recalls in his autobiography that the only equipment provided to him was a blackboard and piece of chalk.

His longest and most enduring work is the story of his life, the Commentaries, which is the only autobiography ever written by a reigning Pope.

Diggle claimed in his autobiography that he and Shelley had only granted the BBC use of their name under the impression that it would be a one-off, probably unsuccessful pilot, and that they are now mildly disgruntled that the name is more readily associated in Britain with the TV series than with their band.

With his health failing, Grant devoted his time to his autobiography ; five days after finishing it, he became the only U. S. president to die of cancer.

Shakur devotes only one paragraph of her autobiography to her marriage, attributing its termination to disagreements related to gender roles.

As he relates in his autobiography, he examined the bronze powder made in Nuremberg which was the only place where it was made at the time.

After Stowe's death her son and grandson claimed she and Henson had met before Uncle Tom's Cabin was written, but the chronology does not hold up to scrutiny and she probably drew material only from his published autobiography.

) Niven explained in his autobiography that there was no military way that he, as a lieutenant-colonel, and Ustinov, who was only a private, could associate, except as an officer and his subordinate, hence their strange " act ".

Spock himself, in his autobiography, pointed out that he had never advocated permissiveness ; also, that the attacks and claims that he had ruined American youth only arose after his public opposition to the Vietnam war.

" If ( she ) had reacted differently, that would have been suspect " and Hearst was " a rare phenomenon ( in a first world nation )... the first and as far as I know the only victim of a political kidnapping in the United States " were direct quotes from Hearst's autobiography attributed to the doctor.

Shy by his own admission, Kelley was the only cast member of the original Star Trek series program never to have written or published an autobiography ; however, the authorized biography From Sawdust to Stardust ( 2005 ) was written posthumously by Terry Lee Rioux of Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.

" However, he thought enough of genealogy to include in his autobiography that his father, Hank Chrysler, " Canadian born, had been brought from Chatham, Ontario, to Kansas City when he was only five or six.

In her autobiography, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gilman wrote that her mother showed affection only when she thought her young daughter was asleep.

The first work in colloquial Russian, the autobiography of the archpriest Avvakum, emerged only in the mid-17th century.

According to Harpo's autobiography, he was once thrown out of the window of his classroom ( from the first floor ) by two big Irish kids, as he was the only Jew in the class and was very small for his age.

In his autobiography, he admitted to hundreds of sexual liaisons and affairs, including one with a transsexual, but claimed he only undertook this course of action because his first wife was unfaithful.

She is a Welsh-speaker: in the first volume of her autobiography ( Private Faces ) she notes that she spoke only Welsh for much of her childhood, learning English by listening to the radio.

According to Clinton's autobiography, Democratic Senator Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois, the only African-American who was serving in the upper chamber at that time, also urged the President to withdraw Guinier's nomination.

Eysenck ’ s attitude was summarised in his autobiography Rebel with a Cause ( Transaction Publishers, 1997, ISBN 1-56000-938-1 ): " I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

In his autobiography, Confessions of a Happy Man ( 1960 ), he revealed that he had no contact with his natural parents or his sister or two brothers since he was abandoned when only a few weeks old.