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Paul Halmos

1916 - 2006

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Paul Richard Halmos (Hungarian: Halmos Pál; March 3, 1916 – October 2, 2006) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician and statistician who made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces). He was also recognized as a great mathematical expositor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Halmos has received more than 298,993 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Paul Halmos is the 488th most popular mathematician (down from 470th in 2019), the 330th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 290th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Paul Halmos ranks 488 out of 823Before him are Aleksandr Khinchin, Louis Nirenberg, Nina Bari, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Jakob Hermann, and Harold Jeffreys. After him are William Thurston, Willem 's Gravesande, Johannes de Muris, John Pell, Giovanni Antonio Magini, and Jacques Herbrand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Paul Halmos ranks 135Before him are Ri Jong-ok, Jack Arnold, Halet Çambel, Ugo Locatelli, M. S. Subbulakshmi, and Bismillah Khan. After him are Werner Bischof, Veronika Dudarova, Wan Li, Svend Asmussen, Lou Thesz, and Fernando Lamas. Among people deceased in 2006, Paul Halmos ranks 168Before him are Anthony Franciosa, Dana Reeve, Maureen Stapleton, Vera Aceva, Bismillah Khan, and Chris Penn. After him are Henri Colpi, Gennadiy Aygi, Bruno Kirby, Kazimierz Górski, Anita O'Day, and Ghulam Ishaq Khan.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Paul Halmos ranks 330 out of 866Before him are László Polgár (1946), Stephen Heller (1813), Antal Dunai (1943), Charles Vidor (1900), Árpád Szakasits (1888), and József Takács (1904). After him are Imre Frivaldszky (1799), Tibor Déry (1894), Lippo Hertzka (1904), Gyula Breyer (1893), Lili Kraus (1903), and Frigyes Riesz (1880).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Paul Halmos ranks 9Before him are George Pólya (1887), Marcel Grossmann (1878), Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), John G. Kemeny (1926), László Lovász (1948), and Peter Lax (1926). After him are Frigyes Riesz (1880), Dénes Kőnig (1884), Pál Turán (1910), Rózsa Péter (1905), Endre Szemerédi (1940), and Alfréd Rényi (1921).