I was too near it then to see how shallow it all was... - Paul Halmos

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I was too near it then to see how shallow it all was...

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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