A Glimpse at Hilbert Space Operators Paul R. Halmos in Memoriam /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Axler, Sheldon (Editor), Rosenthal, Peter (Editor), Sarason, Donald (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Springer Basel, 2010.
• Series: Operator Theory Advances and Applications ; 207
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Operator theory.; Operator Theory.

Paul Richard Halmos, who lived a life of unbounded devotion to mathematics and to the mathematical community, died at the age of 90 on October 2, 2006. This volume is a memorial to Paul by operator theorists he inspired. Paul’sinitial research,beginning with his 1938Ph.D. thesis at the University of...

Table of Contents:

• Paul Halmos
• Paul Halmos — Expositor Par Excellence
• Paul Halmos: In His Own Words
• Obituary: Paul Halmos, 1916–2006
• Mathematical Review of “How to Write Mathematics” by P.R. Halrnos
• Publications of Paul R. Halmos
• Photos
• Articles
• What Can Hilbert Spaces Tell Us About Bounded Functions in the Bidisk?
• Dilation Theory Yesterday and Today
• Toeplitz Operators
• Dual Algebras and Invariant Subspaces
• The State of Subnormal Operators
• Polynomially Hyponormal Operators
• Essentially Normal Operators
• The Operator Fejér-Riesz Theorem
• A Halmos Doctrine and Shifts on Hilbert Space
• The Behavior of Functions of Operators Under Perturbations
• The Halmos Similarity Problem
• Paul Halmos and Invariant Subspaces
• Commutant Lifting
• Double Cones are Intervals.