John H Ewing

PAUL HALMOS Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics John H Ewing 1991 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Paul Halmos by Parts.- I: Maverick Mathologist.- II: In Touch with God.- Paul Halmos s Expository Writing.- Paul Halmos: Words More than Numbers.- Bibliography of Paul Halmos.- Paul Halmos: Through the Years (photos).- Paul Halmos as Graduate Student.- Early Days at Mathematical Reviews.- Reminiscences.- Writing Mathematics.- Some Early Memories Around Paul Halmos.- Recollections of P. R. Halmos at Chicago.- Reminiscences of Chicago in the Fifties.- Reflections on Graduate Education.- Michigan Years.- Walking and Talking with Halmos.- Being Professional.- Reflections of a Department Chair.- Paul Halmos and the Progress of Operator Theory.- Characteristic Classes and Characteristic Forms.- Equivalents of the Invariant Subspace Problem.- Probability vs. Measure.- New Hilbert Spaces from Old.- Some Universal Constraints for Discrete Mobius Groups.- Noncommutative Variations on Theorems of Marcel Riesz and Others.- On Products of Involutions.- Paul Halmos and Toeplitz Operators.- Lebesgue s Fundamental Theorem of Calculus Revisited.- Mathematics from Fun & Fun from Mathematics: An Informal Autobiographical History of Combinatorial Games.- Quantification Theory in a Nutshell.- The Legendre Relation for Elliptic Integrals.- Index of Names."