ABSTRACT
PS Atiyah: An Academic Autobiography is an unusual book. Autobiographical writing by academics is rare, if only because academic lives are seldom of interest to anyone except, perhaps, the author’s family and other scholars. It appears that Atiyah wrote his autobiography soon after he retired in 1988. Its story ends in 1991. He offered the manuscript to several ‘commercial’ publishers, but without success. It was eventually published by a university press at the instigation of academic colleagues and admirers. Atiyah had deposited a copy with the British Academy, ostensibly to provide material for the biographical memoir with which Fellows are honoured. That memoir was written by James Goudkamp, who also edited this volume and provides a preface.
Peter Cane, PS Atiyah: An Academic Autobiography by PS Atiyah (ed James Goudkamp) (2026) Sydney Law Review volume 48. Published 31 August 2026.
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