Paul Halmos
Paul Halmos · Science & Medicine
Operator theory and celebrated mathematical exposition
1916, Budapest, Hungary — 2006, Los Gatos, California, United States
Hungary · United States
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Halmos was a Hungarian-American mathematician who made contributions to operator theory, ergodic theory and measure theory, and became one of the century's most celebrated mathematical expositors through textbooks like 'Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces.' He was Jewish; his family emigrated to the United States in the 1920s.
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Operator theory and celebrated mathematical exposition
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