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Paul Halmos

1916 - 2006

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Paul Richard Halmos (Hungarian: Halmos Pál; 3 March 3 1916 – 2 October 2006) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician and probabilist who made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, 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 322,989 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Paul Halmos is the 574th most popular mathematician (down from 487th in 2019), the 394th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 330th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Paul Halmos ranks 574 out of 1,004. Before him are Friedrich Robert Helmert, Ernest William Brown, Karol Borsuk, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Dénes Kőnig, and Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana. After him are Erhard Schmidt, Emil Julius Gumbel, Arthur Moritz Schoenflies, Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Endre Szemerédi, and Nilakantha Somayaji.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Paul Halmos ranks 151. Before him are Wan Li, Keenan Wynn, Françoise Giroud, Jack Arnold, Arie van Vliet, and Evelyn Keyes. After him are Dom Mintoff, Anton Diffring, Werner Bischof, Antonio Buero Vallejo, Svend Asmussen, and Jenő Fock. Among people deceased in 2006, Paul Halmos ranks 193. Before him are Dennis Weaver, Kathleen Antonelli, Yitzhak Kaduri, Gert Fredriksson, Kazimierz Górski, and Theodore Levitt. After him are Anita O'Day, Arif Mardin, Pío Leyva, Sven Axbom, Max Merkel, and Rainer Barzel.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Paul Halmos ranks 394 out of 1,077. Before him are József Nagy (1892), Sándor Simonyi-Semadam (1864), Dénes Kőnig (1884), Igor Grabar (1871), Gyula Krúdy (1878), and Milán Füst (1888). After him are György Lázár (1924), Éva Marton (1943), Gábor Szabó (1936), Zoltán Horváth (1937), Alexandre Trauner (1906), and Anton Seidl (1850).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Paul Halmos ranks 14. Before him are Frigyes Riesz (1880), Raoul Bott (1923), Peter Lax (1926), Pál Turán (1910), Klára Dán von Neumann (1911), and Dénes Kőnig (1884). After him are Endre Szemerédi (1940), Lipót Fejér (1880), Rózsa Péter (1905), Vera T. Sós (1930), Alfréd Rényi (1921), and Alfréd Haar (1885).

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