Paul Halmos celebrating 50 years of mathematics

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Preface = ⅴ
• Mathematician, Writer, and Editor
• Paul Halmos by Parts = 3
• INTERVIEWS BY DONALD J. ALBERS
• Part Ⅰ: Maverick Mathologist = 5
• Part Ⅱ: In Touch with God = 21
• Paul Halmos's Expository Writing / LEONARD GILLMAN = 33
• Paul Halmos: Words More than Numbers / W. M. PRIESTLEY = 49
• Bibliography of Paul Halmos = 61
• The Way It Was
• Paul Halmos: Through the Years(photos) = 72
• Paul Halmos as Graduate Student / WARREN AMBROSE = 75
• Early Days at Mathematical Reviews / R. P. BOAS = 79
• Reminiscences / IRVING KAPLANSKY = 87
• Writing Mathematics / J. L. KELLEY = 91
• Some Early Memories Around Paul Halmos / HANS SAMELSON = 97
• Recollections of P. R. Halmos at Chicago / E. H. SPANIER = 103
• Reminiscences of Chicago in the Fifties / MORRIS W. HIRSCH = 109
• Reflections on Graduate Education / ROB KIRBY = 119
• Michigan Years / R. G. DOUGLAS = 127
• Walking and Talking with Halmos / LAWRENCE J. WALLEN = 133
• Being Professional / JOHN H. EWING = 143
• Reflections of a Department Chair / G. L. ALEXANDERSON = 149
• Some Mathematics
• Paul Halmos and the Progress of Operator Theory / JOHN B. CONWAY = 155
• Characteristic Classes and Characteristic Forms / SHIING-SHEN CHERN = 169
• Equivalents of the Invariant Subspace Problem / PETER ROSENTHAL = 179
• Probability vs. Measure / J. L. DOOB = 189
• New Hilbert Spaces from Old / DONALD SARASON = 195
• Some Universal Constraints for Discrete M$$\ddot o$$bius Groups / F. W. GEHRING ; G. J. MARTIN = 205
• Noncommutative Variations on Theorems of Marcel Riesz and Others / T. A. GILLESPIE = 221
• On Products of Involutions / WILLIAM H. GUSTAFSON = 237
• Paul Halmos and Toeplitz Operators / SHELDON AXLER = 257
• Lebesgue's "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" Revisited / S. K. BERBERIAN = 265
• Mathematics from Fun & Fun from Mathematics: An Informal Autobiographical History of Combinatorial Games / RICHARD K. Guy = 287
• Quantification Theory in a Nutshell / RAYMOND M. SMULLYAN = 297
• The Legendre Relation for Elliptic Integrals / PETER DUREN = 305
• Index of Names = 317