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Paul Halmos

1916 - 2006

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Paul Richard Halmos (Hungarian: Halmos Pál; 3 March 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. He has been described as one of The Martians. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Halmos is the 501st most popular mathematician (up from 574th in 2019), the 322nd most popular biography from Hungary (up from 394th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Paul Halmos ranks 501 out of 1,004. Before him are Friedrich Hirzebruch, Stephen Cole Kleene, Pierre Wantzel, Aleksandr Khinchin, Friedrich Robert Helmert, and Issai Schur. After him are Ian Stewart, William Kingdon Clifford, Abraham Robinson, Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar, John Vitéz, and Thomas Bradwardine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Paul Halmos ranks 119. Before him are Unica Zürn, Ramón José Velásquez, Harold Robbins, Wilhelm Batz, Maria Altmann, and John Basilone. After him are Moondog, Hidetoki Takahashi, Vladimir Demikhov, Erik Nilsson, Iosif Shklovsky, and Jackie Gleason. Among people deceased in 2006, Paul Halmos ranks 152. Before him are Shin Sang-ok, Maynard Ferguson, Richard Bright, Ferenc Szusza, Galina Ustvolskaya, and Carlo Acutis. After him are Alexander Zinoviev, Maureen Stapleton, Mickey Spillane, Anthony Franciosa, Jerry Brudos, and Shoshana Damari.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Paul Halmos ranks 322 out of 1,077. Before him are İbrahim Peçevi (1574), Lippo Hertzka (1904), Friar Julian (1250), Gyula Kellner (1871), Mária Mednyánszky (1901), and Nicholas Kaldor (1908). After him are Gyula Károlyi (1871), Johann Löwenthal (1810), Kató Lomb (1909), Catherine of Hungary, Queen of Serbia (1256), Gyula Peidl (1873), and Miklós Radnóti (1909).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Paul Halmos ranks 11. Before him are Peter Lax (1926), Marcel Grossmann (1878), Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), Klára Dán von Neumann (1911), László Lovász (1948), and Frigyes Riesz (1880). After him are Endre Szemerédi (1940), Rózsa Péter (1905), Pál Turán (1910), Dénes Kőnig (1884), Lipót Fejér (1880), and Alfréd Haar (1885).

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