Mathematician:Paul Richard Halmos

Hungarian-born mathematician who made fundamental advances in the areas of probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).

Also famous for his widely-cited book.

Nationality
Hungarian-American

History

 * Born: 3 March 1916, Budapest, Hungary
 * Died: 2 Oct 2006, Los Gatos, California, USA

Achievements

 * Iff
 * Halmos Function
 * Halmos Symbol

Books and Papers

 * 1942:
 * 1950:
 * 1951: Introduction to Hilbert Space and the Theory of Spectral Multiplicity
 * 1956: Lectures on Ergodic Theory
 * 1960:
 * 1962: Algebraic Logic
 * 1963:
 * 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)
 * 2008: (with Steven Givant)