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Paul Halmos celebrating 50 years of mathematics
- Title
- Paul Halmos celebrating 50 years of mathematics / John H. Ewing, F.W. Gehring, editors.
- Publication
- New York : Springer-Verlag, c1991.
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- Description
- viii, 320 p. : ports.; 24 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Paul Halmos celebrating fifty years of mathematics.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "Bibliography of Paul Halmos": p. [61]-69.
- Contents
- 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" revisted / 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.
- Call Number
- JSE 95-1768
- ISBN
- 9780387975092 (acid-free paper)
- 0387975098 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 90025802
- OCLC
- 22859036
- Title
- Paul Halmos celebrating 50 years of mathematics / John H. Ewing, F.W. Gehring, editors.
- Imprint
- New York : Springer-Verlag, c1991.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index."Bibliography of Paul Halmos": p. [61]-69.
- Added Author
- Halmos, Paul R. (Paul Richard), 1916-Ewing, John H.Gehring, Frederick W.
- Added Title
- Paul Halmos celebrating fifty years of mathematics.
- Research Call Number
- JSE 95-1768