Has Progress in Mathematics Slowed Down?
Paul Richard Halmos · American Mathematical Monthly · 1990
PAUL HALMOS has three degrees from the University of Illinois; soon after getting the last one he became, for a couple of years, assistant to John von Neumann. Since then he has taught at many universities (including Chicago, Michigan, and Indiana) and has visited many others (including Miami, Montevideo, Hawaii, Edinburgh, and Western Australia); he has been on the faculty of Santa Clara University since 1985. His mathematical interests include ergodic theory, algebraic logic, and operators on Hilbert space.