Recollections of P.R. Halmos at Chicago

E. H. Spanier
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E. H. Spanier: University of California, Department of Mathematics

A chapter in PAUL HALMOS Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics, 1991, pp 103-107 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract During the period 1944–1947 I was a graduate student at the University of Michigan. It was there that I first heard of P.R. Halmos. He became known to me as an author through his excellent book Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces (recommended to me as the best source from which to learn linear algebra). He became a living mathematician to me when I learned in 1946 that he was accepting a position at the University of Chicago as Assistant Professor with a salary of $5,000 (reputed to be the highest salary of any Assistant Professor of Mathematics in the country at the time).

Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-0967-6_13

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