The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces. - Paul Halmos

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The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces.

Paul Halmos

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About Paul Halmos

Paul Richard Halmos (Hungarian: Halmos Pál) (March 3, 1916 – October 2, 2006) was a Hungarian-born Jewish American mathematician who made fundamental advances in the areas of probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces), and mathematical logic.

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Alternative Names: Paul R. Halmos • Paul Richard Halmos

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Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own question, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? What happens in the classical special case? What about the degenerate cases? Where does the proof use the hypothesis?