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    Born
    3 March 1916
    Budapest, Hungary
    Died
    2 October 2006
    Los Gatos, California, USA
    Summary
    Paul Halmos was a Hungarian-American mathematician who made fundamental advances in the areas of logic, probability, statistics, operator theory and functional analysis.

    He is best known for some of his text-books and for his collection of mathematicians' photographs.

    Biography

    Paul Halmos's parents were Sándor Halmos (born 19 January 1881) and Paula Rosenberg (1888-1916).

    Sándor and Paula were married in 1903 and they had three children, George (born about 1909), John (born about 1911) and Paul (the subject of this biography). Paul's mother, Paula, died when Paul was six months old.

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    Paul's father was a successful physician in Budapest who had the rather remarkable foresight to realise the problems that were going to befall Europe. So in 1924 Paul's father emigrated to the United States, leaving Paul and his two elder brothers in Budapest.

    There they were lo