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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.

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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.887–993, 1970.

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

Expository articles by Halmos

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

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

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

Two non-technical books by Halmos

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

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

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

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V S Sunder is a professor of mathematics at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. His areas of specialisation, in increasing order are: functional analysis, von Neumann algebras, and subfactors.

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Sunder, V.S. Paul Halmos — Expositor par excellence. Reson 12, 17–28 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-007-0025-2

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