Mathematician:Paul Richard Halmos

Mathematician
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

Publications

 * 1938: Invariants of Certain Stochastic Transformation: The Mathematical Theory of Gambling Systems (PhD thesis)
 * 1942:
 * 1949: Application of the Radon-Nikodym Theorem to the Theory of Sufficient Statistics (with )
 * 1950:
 * 1951: Introduction to Hilbert Space and the Theory of Spectral Multiplicity
 * 1956: Lectures on Ergodic Theory
 * 1959: Entropy in Ergodic Theory
 * 1960:
 * 1962: Algebraic Logic
 * 1963:
 * 1967: A Hilbert Space Problem Book
 * 1978: Bounded Integral Operators on $L^2$ Spaces (with )
 * 1985:
 * 1987: I Have a Photographic Memory
 * 1991: Problems for Mathematicians, Young and Old
 * 1996: Linear Algebra Problem Book
 * 1998: Logic as Algebra (with )
 * 2008: (with )

Notable Quotes

 * It is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing -- one great, glorious thing.