ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Paul Richard Halmos
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Hungarian-born mathematician who made fundamental advances in the areas of probability theory, statistics, operator theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).
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Nationality
Hungarian-American
History
- Born: 3 March 1916, Budapest, Hungary
- Died: 2 Oct 2006, Los Gatos, California, USA
Achievements
Books and Papers
- 1942: Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces
- 1950: Measure Theory
- 1951: Introduction to Hilbert Space and the Theory of Spectral Multiplicity
- 1956: Lectures on Ergodic Theory
- 1960: Naive Set Theory
- 1962: Algebraic Logic
- 1963: Lectures on Boolean Algebras
- 1967: A Hilbert Space Problem Book
- 1978: Bounded Integral Operators on $L^2$ Spaces (with V. Sunder)
- 1985: I Want to Be a Mathematician
- 1987: I Have a Photographic Memory
- 1991: Problems for Mathematicians, Young and Old
- 1996: Linear Algebra Problem Book
- 1998: Logic as Algebra (with Steven Givant)
