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Paul Halmos — Expositor Par Excellence

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Paul Richard Halmos, one of the best expositors of mathematics — be it with pen on paper or with chalk on blackboard — passed away on October 2, 2006 after a brief period of illness. This article is an attempt to pay homage to him by recalling some of his contributions to mathematics.

Reprinted with permission from the February 2007 issue of Resonance. Suggested reading

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  1. P.R. Halmos, Selecta — Research Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1983.

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  2. P.R. Halmos, Selecta — Expository Writing, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1983.

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Technical papers by Halmos

  1. Ten Problems in Hilbert space, Bulletin of the AMS, Vol. 76, No. 5, pp. 9887–993, 1970.

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  2. Ten Years in Hilbert space, Integral Eqs. and Operator Theory, Vol. 2/4, pp. 529–564, 1979.

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Expository articles by Halmos

  1. How to write Mathematics, l’Enseignement mathématique, Vol. XVI, No. 2, pp. 123–152, 1970.

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  2. How to write Mathematics, Notices of the AMS, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 155–158, 1974.

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  3. The Teaching of Problem Solving, Amer. Math. Monthly, Vol. 82, No. 5, pp. 466–470, 1975.

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Two non-technical books by Halmos

  1. I want to be a Mathematician é an Automathography, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1985.

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  2. I have a Photographic Memory, AMS, Providence, RI, 1987.

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  1. The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, 600 113, India

    V. S. Sunder

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  1. Department of Mathematics, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, 94132-3163, USA

    Sheldon Axler

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, MS5 2E4, Canada

    Peter Rosenthal

  3. Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3840, USA

    Donald Sarason

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Sunder, V.S. (2010). Paul Halmos — Expositor Par Excellence. In: Axler, S., Rosenthal, P., Sarason, D. (eds) A Glimpse at Hilbert Space Operators. Operator Theory Advances and Applications, vol 207. Springer, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0347-8_1

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