Title | PAUL HALMOS Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics [electronic resource] / edited by John H. Ewing, F. W. Gehring |
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Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1991 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0967-6 |
Descript | VIII, 320 p. online resource |
Paul Halmos by Parts -- I: Maverick Mathologist -- II: In Touch with God -- Paul Halmosโs Expository Writing -- Paul Halmos: Words More than Numbers -- Bibliography of Paul Halmos -- Paul Halmos: Through the Years (photos) -- Paul Halmos as Graduate Student -- Early Days at Mathematical Reviews -- Reminiscences -- Writing Mathematics -- Some Early Memories Around Paul Halmos -- Recollections of P.R. Halmos at Chicago -- Reminiscences of Chicago in the Fifties -- Reflections on Graduate Education -- Michigan Years -- Walking and Talking with Halmos -- Being Professional -- Reflections of a Department Chair -- Paul Halmos and the Progress of Operator Theory -- Characteristic Classes and Characteristic Forms -- Equivalents of the Invariant Subspace Problem -- Probability vs. Measure -- New Hilbert Spaces from Old -- Some Universal Constraints for Discrete Mรถbius Groups -- Noncommutative Variations on Theorems of Marcel Riesz and Others -- On Products of Involutions -- Paul Halmos and Toeplitz Operators -- Lebesgueโs โFundamental Theorem of Calculus โRevisited -- Mathematics from Fun & Fun from Mathematics: An Informal Autobiographical History of Combinatorial Games -- Quantification Theory in a Nutshell -- The Legendre Relation for Elliptic Integrals -- Index of Names