Paul Halmos

Paul Halmos was a mathematician, philosopher, statistician, and university teacher born in Budapest in 1916. He worked in algebra, mathematical analysis, functional analysis, and probability theory. A citizen of Hungary and the United States, he was educated at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign and served as a doctoral student of Joseph Leo Doob. His academic career included positions at the University of Chicago, University of California, Santa Barbara, Syracuse University, and the University of Hawaiʻi System.

Halmos was a member of The Martians, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Mathematical Association of America. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards, the Leroy P. Steele Prize, and the Chauvenet Prize. He authored 53 works, including *Logica As Algebra* and *Stochastic processes in sociology*. He died of pneumonia in Los Gatos in 2006. His doctoral students included Donald Sarason, Bernard Galler, and Errett Bishop.