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Paul Halmos celebrating 50 years of mathematics

Paul Halmos will celebrate his 75th birthday on the 3rd of March 1991. Articles about the times and places in which Paul has worked describe people, events, and ways in which Paul has influenced students and colleagues over the past 50 years.
Print Book, English, ©1991
Springer-Verlag, New York, ©1991
Aufsatzsammlung
viii, 320 pages : portraits ; 24 cm
9780387975092, 9783540975090, 0387975098, 3540975098
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Interviews : part I : maverick mathologist ; Part II : in touch with God / Donald J. Albers
Paul Halmos's expository writing / Leonard Gillman
Paul Halmos : words more than numbers / W.M. Priestley
Paul Halmos as graduate student / Warren Ambrose
Early days at Mathematical Reviews / R.P. Boas
Reminiscences / Irving Kaplansky
Writing mathematics / J.L. Kelley
Some early memories around Paul Halmos / Hans Samelson
Recollections of P.R. Halmos at Chicago / E.H. Spanier
Reminiscences of Chicago in the fifties / Morris W. Hirsch
Reflections on graduate education / Rob Kirby
Michigan years / R.G. Douglas
Walking and talking with Halmos / Lawrence J. Wallen. Being professional / John H. Ewing
Reflections of a department chair / G.L. Alexanderson
Paul Halmos and the progress of operator theory / John B. Conway
Characteristic classes and characteristic forms / Shiing-Shen Chern
Equivalents of the invariant subspace problem / Peter Rosenthal
Probability vs. measure / J.L. Doob
New Hilbert spaces from old / Donald Sarason
Some universal constraints for discrete Möbius groups / F.W. Gehring and G.J. Martin
Noncommutative variations on theorems of Marcel Riesz and others / T.A. Gillespie
On products of involutions / William H. Gustafson
Paul Halmos and Toeplitz operators / Sheldon Axler. Lesbesgue's "Fundamental theorem of calculus" revisited / S.K. Berberian
Mathematics from fun & fun from mathematics : an informal autobiographical history of combinatorial games / Richard K. Guy
Quantification theory in a nutshell / Raymond M. Smullyan
The Legendre relation for elliptic integrals / Peter Duren