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

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 w

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

Sheldon Axler Peter Rosenthal Donald Sarason Editors

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Editors: Sheldon Axler Department of Mathematics San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132-3163 USA e-mail: [email protected]

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Peter Rosenthal Department of Mathematics University of Toronto Toronto, ON MS5 2E4 Canada e-mail: [email protected]

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Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .