urn:taro:utexas.cah.01494 A Guide to the Paul R. Halmos Papers, 1915-2006 Original EAD encoding by Beth Nettels according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. April 2010 Finding aid written in English. December 2012Inventory and locations updated by Elliot Williams. Descriptive Summary Halmos, Paul R., 1916-2006 Paul R. Halmos Papers 1916-2006 Materials are written in English. 89-315; 2005-062; 2007-233; 2008-324 610018592 24 ft., 10 in. Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin Correspondence, notes, lectures, publications, and teaching materials (1915-2006) document the mathematical career of Paul R. Halmos as a teacher, editor of mathematical publications, and as an author and lecturer. Biographical Note

Paul Richard Halmos (1916-2006) is known for his work in operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis, as well as his mathematical exposition and his teaching style. His major teaching positions were at the University of Chicago (1946-1960), the University of Michigan (1961-1967), Indiana University (1969-1985), and Santa Clara University (1985-1996), where he was Professor Emeritus until his death in 2006.

Halmos was born March 3, 1916, in Budapest, Hungary. He came to the United States in 1929 and attended high school in Chicago. In 1931, at the age of 15, he entered the University of Illinois, intending to study chemical engineering, and graduated three years later (1934) with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and philosophy. Halmos then entered graduate school at the University of Illinois in order to pursue a Ph.D. in philosophy. After failing the oral comprehensive exam for the master’s degree, he changed the focus of his graduate studies and registered as a student in the department of mathematics. Halmos earned his doctorate in mathematics under Joseph Doob in 1938.

Following the completion of his doctorate, Halmos served as John von Neumann's assistant at the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) (1939-1942), a post that led to the publication of his first book, Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces, in 1942. After working at the IAS, Halmos taught soldiers in the Army's Specialized Training Program at Syracuse University before moving to the University of Chicago, and the University of Michigan. After one year as the mathematics department chair at the University of Hawaii (1967-1968), he began a professorship at Indiana University, where he would stay until 1985, with the exception of two years spent at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1975-1977). In 1985, he moved to Santa Clara University where he worked until his retirement in 1996. In addition to these posts, Halmos held visiting appointments at the University of Montevideo, Uruguay (1951-1952), the University of Miami (1965-1966), and the University of Washington (1959), among others.

Halmos served as editor of several publications, including the Mathematical Association of America’s American Mathematical Monthly (1982-1986) and Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (1958-1963). For the Van Nostrand publishing company he edited the University Series in Undergraduate Mathematics. Halmos also served as editor for the Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete series and Graduate Texts in Mathematics series published by Springer-Verlag.

He received the Steele Prize for exposition from the American Mathematical Society in 1983 and the Distinguished Teacher Award from the Mathematical Association of America in 1993. Halmos was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Guggenheim Fellow. In 2000, he was awarded the Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics by the Mathematical Association of America, the organization’s most prestigious award for service.

 Scope and Contents

Correspondence, notes, lectures, publications, and teaching materials (1915-2006) document the mathematical career of Paul R. Halmos as a teacher, editor of mathematical publications, and as an author and lecturer. Arranged in nine series representing Halmos’s teaching and professional activities, his work with mathematical organizations, his research notes and travel diaries, and his work as author and lecturer. The Teaching/Professional series consists of course notes used by Halmos for teaching, correspondence concerning employment and relations with the mathematics department of which he was part, awards, and student dissertations. Halmos’s role as editor of the American Mathematical Monthly is richly documented through correspondence and editors reports arranged in the Organizations series. Also well represented in this series is the renovation of the Mathematical Association of America Carriage House, to which Halmos donated substantially. The Notes series includes Halmos’s mathematical research, a substantial portion of which consists of problems collected and created by Halmos, and often used in his publications. The Conferences series contains correspondence and diaries documenting Halmos’s travels abroad to attend conferences. In several instances, the lecture associated with the conference can be found in the Lectures series. The bulk of the Publications and Writings series consists of reprints by Halmos and others. Halmos’s personal life is represented in the Correspondence and Personal series. Much of the correspondence, arranged alphabetically, is both personal and related to questions of mathematics.

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 Index Terms Subjects (Persons) Ambrose, Warren Arthur, 1914- Boas, Ralph Philip Doob, Joseph L. Gillman, Leonard Halmos, Paul R. (Paul Richard), 1916-2006 Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957 Willcox, Alfred B., 1925- Subjects (Organizations) American Mathematical Society Indiana University, Bloomington. Dept. of Mathematics Mathematical Association of America Mathematical Association of America. American Mathematical Monthly Mathematical Intelligencer Santa Clara University (Calif.) University of Chicago. Dept. of Mathematics Subjects Ergodic theory Linear algebras Mathematics Mathematics--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States Topology Places Bloomington (Ind.) Budapest (Hungary) Chicago (Ill.) Montevideo (Uruguay) Santa Clara (Calif.) Preferred Citation

Paul R. Halmos Papers, 1915-2006, Archives of American Mathematics, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

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 Detailed Description of the Papers I. Teaching/Professional Courses and lectures 4La127 “University of Chicago” (RESTRICTED until 2036, class lists with grades), 1946-1961 1946-1961 4La90 “Theory of spectral multiplicity,” typed manuscript, 1949 4La111 “HILB,” assignments, winter 1950, undated winter 1950, undated 4La111 “Notes on topological algebra,” 33 lectures at the University of Chicago, autumn 1952 4La111 “Logic Course 1954,” 1954 4La92 “Ergodic Theory,” Math 373 A, University of Chicago, 1955 4La90 “Entropy in Ergodic Theory,” bound mimeographed lectures, 1959 4La90 “Entropy in Ergodic Theory,” “Invariant Subspaces,” bound lectures, 1959, 1969 4La111 “Axiomatic Set Theory,” manuscript, 1950s? 4La111 “Axiomatic Set Theory,” manuscript with edits, 1950s? 4La111 “C.V.,” Complex analysis course (Math 603), 1965 4La111 Commutative Banach algebras notebook, summer 1967 4La96 “Logic Course,” typed manuscript, circa 1977 4La96 “Topology,” notes, correspondence, student assignments (RESTRICTED until 2059, student grades), 1984, undated 4La112 “Knuth [D.E.],” notes for writing class taught by Halmos at Stanford, 1987 4La112 “Problems,” May 1993 4La112 “Solutions,” LAPB Solutions, May 1993 4La112 “Sets,” undated 4La112 “Problems Draft 0,” Combinatorics, undated undated 4La113 “How Rich is Finite?” undated Professional Records 4La113 “Uruguay,” typewritten account of year, correspondence, 1950-1952 4La113 Australian Mathematical Society Summer Research Institute, 1963-1964 4La92 “Jobs,” correspondence, 1957-1984 4La92 “Bibliography,” 1957, 1990, circa 1996, undated 4La92 “Announcements and Appreciations,” correspondence, flyers, clippings, 1970-1992 4La113 “Faculty Report,” 1970-1984, 1994 4La91 Santa Barbara Visit,” correspondence, tax forms, 1975-1976 4La91 “Santa Barbara Perm.,” correspondence, tax forms, 1975-1976 4La91 Letters of recommendation to University of California, Santa Barbara, 1975-1976 4La91 “Old Pro. Rec.,” reviews, correspondence, and clippings, 1980-1990 4La72 Faculty reports, 1977-1984, undated 4La113 “Faculty Activities Report,” reports, 1984-1992 4La91 “Pro. Rec.,” list of publications and lectures, archives correspondence, 1986, 1996, 1999, undated 4La102 General professional correspondence, 2 folders, 1987-2004, undated 4La113 “Uruguay,” trip to Uruguay correspondence, 1991 4La113 Student evaluations – forms, notes, 1991-1996, undated 4La113 Faculty Activities Reports, 1992-1995 4La113 Faculty evaluation, 1992, 1993, 1995 4La113 Maharishi International University, correspondence, university information, 1994 4La113 Emails concerning Indiana University visit, 1994 4La113 Ph.D. students list, Master lecture list, 1993, 1995, 1998 4La113 Emeritus status, 1995 4La113 Faculty service, letter, filled-out form, 1995 4La113 University and departmental newsletters, draft, email, form, 1995, circa 1997 4La91 Ph.D. Students,” list of Halmos’ doctoral students, 1998 Awards and Honorary Degrees 4La91 Certificate of Induction into the Royal Society of Edinburgh, March 3, 1975 4La91 Certificate of Induction into the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, May 11, 1979 AAM-OS/3 (CDL) Honorary doctorate, St. Andrews University (St. Andrews, Scotland), 1980 4La128 Plaque for honorary doctorate, De Pauw University (Greencastle, IN), 1984 4La91 Honorary doctorate, De Pauw University, May 19, 1984 4La91 Honorary doctorate, Kalamazoo College (Kalamazoo, MI), March 14, 1986 4La91 Honorary doctorate, University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Canada), May 26, 1990 4La113 “Waterloo,” University of Waterloo honorary degree correspondence, 1990 4La113 University Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, CA), 1993-1994 4La91 “University Award for Excellence in Scholarship,” Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, CA), April 7, 1994 4La91 “Who’s Who in America” announcement, 1999 4La91 Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics, MAA, January 20, 2000 4La91 Recognition of Sixty-Five Years of Membership, MAA, December 2006 Student dissertations 4La88 On Some Questions in Ergodic Theory, Carl Linderholm, University of Chicago, 1963 4La88 The Hp Spaces of Annuli, Donald Erik Sarason, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), 1963 4La88 Function Algebras and Hilbert Space, Lewis Alan Coburn, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), 1964 4La88 Some Contributions to the Theory of Toeplitz Operators, Eric Albert Nordgren, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), 1964 4La88 Weighted Translation Operators, Stephen Kinsley Parrott, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), 1965 4La88 On Lattices of Invariant Subspaces, Peter Michael Rosenthal, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), 1967 4La88 On Lattices of Invariant Subspaces, K.J. Harrison, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), 1970 4La89 Decompositions of Weighted Translation Operators, Joseph John Bastian, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN), 1973 4La89 Quasidiagonal and Quasitriangular Operators, Russell A. Smucker, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN), 1973 4La89 Reductive Operators on Hilbert Space, Robert Laurens Moore, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN), 1974 4La89 On Chains of Invariant Subspaces, Jose Barria-Sanchez, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN), 1974 4La89 Closures of Unitary Equivalence Classes, Donald W. Hadwin, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN), 1975 4La90 Normal Spectral Approximation, Donald David Rogers, Indiana University, 1975 4La90 Characterization Theorems for Integral Operators, V.S. Sunder, Indiana University, 1977 Clippings 4La91 “Stanford Newsletter,” 1986-1987 4La91 Los Gatos Weekly-Times, Los Gatos, CA, February 16, 2000 II. Organizations Mathematical Association of America American Mathematical Monthly [PRH was editor from 1982-1986] 4La118 American Mathematical Monthly, 1991-1995 4La73 Articles [Manuscripts, some with editorial annotations. Roughly alphabetical by author’s last name.] 4La73 Aaronson-Bellcastro, 1985 4La73 Balinsky-Harkin, 1985-1986 4La73 Harkin-Lankford, 1985-1986, undated 4La73 Kauffman, 84-616, 1984 4La73 Lewinter-Nag, 1985-1986, undated 4La73 London-Rogosinsky, 1987-1988 4La73 Obi-Snider, 1985-1986, undated 4La74 Small, 83-413, 1983-1985 4La74 Sommese, January 22, 1986, undated 4La74 Subramanian-Teugels, 1985, undated 4La74 Tolosa, January 1986 4La74 Tsai-Vasantha, 1985-1986, undated 4La74 Weinberg, February 1985 4La74 West-Zuricker, 1985-1986 4La75 RESTRICTED [These entries contain referee names, and are restricted for 30 years from date of creation. Redacted copies can be used by researchers, see archivist for details.] 4La75 Alexander, 84-555, 1984 4La75 Bender, 85-762, 1985-1987 4La75 Bentz, 85-733, 1985 4La75 Blaum, 84-641, 1984-1985 4La75 Henrich, 84-644, 1984-1985 4La75 Howland, 85-711, 1985 4La75 Roginsky, 1988 4La75 Wang, 83-486, semi-reject, 1983-1984 4La76 Best young mathematician, 1981 4La76 Budget, 1980-1985 4La77 Correspondence 4La77 Leonard Gillman, Treasurer, 1984-1986 4La77 Ivan Niven, President, 1983-1985 4La77 Warren Page, College Mathematics Journal, 1983-1987 4La77 Ken Ross, Secretary, 1984-1987 4La77 Lynn Arthur Steen, President, 1984-1986 4La77 A. B. Willcox, Executive director, 1979-1987 4La77 Editors/Associate Editors 4La77 General, [includes notes], 1981-1985 4La77 Final issue letter, September 3, 1986 4La77 R. P. Boas, 1979-1986 4La77 Wistar Comfort, 1982-1986 4La78 Richard K. Guy, 1981-1986 4La78 Raoul Hailpern, 1981-1986 4La78 Seymour Schuster, 1980-1986 4La78 Herbert S. Wilf, 1980-1985 4La78 Book Reviews 4La78 Extended Reviews 4La78 Allen L. Edmonds, 1981-1985 4La78 John H. Ewing, 1980-1986 4La78 Telegraphic Reviews, Lynn Steen, 1980-1986 4La78 Mathematical Education, R. F. and M. R. Wardrop, 1982- 1987 4La78 Notes 4La78 Sabra S. Anderson, 1982-1986 4La78 Sheldon Axler, 1983-1986 4La78 J. Arthur Seebach, about, 1984-1985 4La78 J. Arthur Seebach, to/from, 1983-1986 4La78 Problems 4La78 G. L. Alexanderson, 1982-1985 4La78 Dale H. Mugler, 1982-1983 4La74 Advanced, David Borwein and Kenneth Stolarsky, 1980-1985 4La74 Elementary, Hugh M. W. Edgar, 1982-1985 4La74 Progress Reports 4La74 Thomas Banchoff, 1981-1984 4La74 Richard S. Millman, 1982-1984 4La79 General [Filed roughly in alphabetical order by the name of the correspondent and/or the subject of the correspondence. File numbers in brackets reflect the original file numbering system. Note: single subject files were generally not numbered.] 1977-1987 4La79 General MAA correspondence and printed material, 1977-1986 4La79 Aaronson-Alder, [file 1] 4La79 Andree-Ascher, [file 2] 4La79 Assmus-Ayoub, [file 3] 4La79 Backlog-Bateman, [file 4] 4La79 Bear-Beyl, [file 5] 4La79 Bhuiyan-Blyth, [file 6] 4La79 Boas-Boyarsky, [file 7] 4La79 Book award 4La79 Braden-Byrnes, [file 8] 4La79 Cable-Cater, [file 9] 4La79 Chakerian-Chung, [file 10] 4La79 [file 11 is missing] 4La79 Cohen-Cox, [file 12] 4La79 Cover 4La79 Cronin-Czech problems, [file 13] 4La80 Criticism 4La80 Das-Dawson, [file 14] 4La80 DeBranges-Dhage, [file 15] 4La80 Dilworth-Dorsett, [file 16] 4La80 Distinguished service, MAA 4La80 Dress-Duncan, [file 17] 4La80 Eagon-El-Sabaa, [file 18] 4La80 Engel-Ewell, [file 19] 4La80 Fettis-Feuer, [file 20] 4La80 Fischer-Flanders, [file 21] 4La80 Ford awards-Fusard, [file 22] 4La80 Gallian-Gersting, [file 23] 4La80 Ghandehari-Gottschalk, [file 24] 4La80 Grabiner-Gzyl, [file 25] 4La80 Hackett-Hartzler, [file 26] 4La80 Hammer-Hayes, [file 27] 4La81 He-Hewitt, [file 28] 4La81 Hicks-Hill, [file 29] 4La81 Hoffman-Hsiung, [file 30] 4La81 Hubbard-Hyllengren, [file 31] 4La81 ICM-Izenman, [file 32] 4La81 Jacobson-Jech, [file 33] 4La81 Johnson-Jongsma, [file 34] 4La81 Kalam-Ken Schaft, [file 35] 4La81 Khajeh-Khalili-Knollenberg, [file 36] 4La81 Kocherlakota-Kurshan, [file 37] 4La81 Labuda-Lax, [file 38] 4La81 Lee-Liu, [file 39] 4La81 Logos-Lozano, [file 40] 4La81 Mack-Mandelbrot, [file 41] 4La81 Marcus-Mavrigian, [file 42] 4La81 McConnell-McGuigan, [file 43] 4La81 [file 44 missing] 4La81 Meetings-Meyerson, [file 45] 4La81 Mihalou-Mneimne, [file 46] 4La81 Moeckel-Mosteller, [file 47] 4La81 Mukherjee-Mycielski, [file 48] 4La82 Nabutovskii-Neumann, [file 49] 4La82 Nachbin 4La82 Negotiations 4La82 New projects 4La82 Nielson-Nummela, [file 50] 4La82 Obi-Owings, [file 51] 4La82 Packard-Phillips, [file 52] 4La82 Perlman 4La82 Pi-Putnam, [file 53] 4La82 Pictures 4La82 Photos, lists of names 4La82 Pseudonyms 4La82 Quandt-Qvant, [file 54] 4La82 Rajasekhar-Rautenberg, [file 55] 4La82 Reany-Reznick, [file 56] 4La83 Rebus 4La83 Richards-Rivlin, [file 57] 4La83 Roan-Royden, [file 58] 4La83 Rosenberg via Boas 4La83 Rubel-Rungaldier, [file 59] 4La83 Saban-Saxena, [file 60] 4La83 Schaffer-Scriba, [file 61] 4La83 Schattschneider 4La83 Sarkaria 4La83 Segal-Shub, [file 62] 4La83 Sibley-Smyth, [file 63] 4La84 Snell-Srivastava, [file 64] 4La84 Stacy-Struve, [file 65] 4La84 Style 4La84 Subrahmanyam-Szemeréde, [file 66] 4La84 Tanik-Thyagarajan, [file 67] 4La84 Tiruneh-Tyler, [file 68] 4La84 Ungar-Von Randow, [file 69] 4La84 Vyborny 4La84 Wagon-Waterhouse, [file 70] 4La84 Weaver-Wetzel, [file 71] 4La84 Whitaker-Whitt, [file 72] 4La84 Wieschenberg-Winkel, [file 73] 4La84 Wolinsky-Wyler, [file 74] 4La84 Xing-Zwicker, [file 75] 4La75 RESTRICTED [Correspondence revealing referee names is restricted for 30 years. It may be viewed after being redacted. Please contact the archivist for more information] 4La75 Fekete, [from file 20] 4La75 Marlow, [from file 42] 4La75 Martin, [from file 42] 4La75 Norwood, [from file 50] 4La75 Nyikos, [from file 50] 4La75 Powell, [from file 53] 4La75 Priestly, [from file 53] 4La76 Early problem receivers 4La76 General, 1985-1986, undated 4La76 Correspondence, 1981-1982 4La76 Copies sent out, 1981-1986 4La76 Editorial assistant, salary requests, 1985-1987 4La76 Editor's reports to the MAA, August 1982, January 1986 4La76 Forms 4La76 Form letters, undated 4La76 Form letters, help form letters for refereeing suggestions, undated 4La76 Letters, invitation number one, undated 4La76 Master of blank used by PRH to record work done on each submitted manuscript, undated 4La76 Transmittal, cover page, undated 4La76 Letters to the editor, proposal, 1982-1983 4La76 Master log of submitted papers, 1981-1984 4La76 Permissions, 1982-1985 4La76 Procedures, referee acknowledgment, 1980-1986 4La76 Progress reports, 1978-1980 4La76 Solicited articles 4La76 Authors, 1981-1985 4La76 Subjects, 1980-1981 4La74 Statement of policy, 1982 4La74 Supplies, 1980-1984 4La74 Subscriptions, Kay Lamont, 1982-1987 4La74 Table of contents 4La74 General, 1983-1985 4La74 Mailing list, 1985-1986, undated 4La74 Writing manual, [research, correspondence, and drafts], 1962-1984 4La110 MAA Carriage House 4La110 “Adv. Bd. Conf. Center I,” Conference center email, 2002-2003 4La110 “MAA Building Committee,” 3 folders, email, proposals, forms, 2002-2006 4La110 Conference Center committee email, 2003-2007 AAM-OS/3 (CDL) MAA Carriage House architectural plans, 2005 4La118 MAA Carriage House renovation study drawing, 2005 4La118 MAA Carriage House renovation digital photo printouts, card from MAA, 2005-2006 4La118 Awards 4La118 Distinguished College or University Teaching, Northern California Section, National, 1993-1994 4La118 Gung-Hu Award, 1999 4La72 Section meetings 4La72 Minutes of the Northern California Section, May 30, 1987 4La118 “Santa Barbara,” Southern California section meeting correspondence, 1991 4La118 “Is Research Necessary After Lunch?” Northern California section meeting, 1993 4La118 Letters of thanks to Halmos for serving on committees, 1993, 1996 4La72 Publications committee, 1988 4La118 American Mathematical Society 4La118 Executive Editor position, correspondence and notes, 1990 4La118 Committees 4La118 “Expo,” Committee on Expository Writing, 1969-1971 4La118 History of Mathematics committee, correspondence, minutes, 1994-1995 4La118 History of Mathematics correspondence, 1995-1996 4La118 Meetings 4La118 Cincinnati, OH, program for 100 years of AMS Meetings, letter, 1993-1994 III. Publications and unpublished material 4La102 “Fan Mail,” letters of appreciation of Halmos’ works, circa 1938, 1958-1996 4La85 Bourbaki, “The Mathematician Who Does’t Exist,” 1960-1963 4La124 “FA”: “The Problem of Invariant Measure,” “Functional Analysis,” 1960, 1987 4La86 Power Boundedness, S. R. Foguel, 1962-1963 4La103 “Boolean algebras, Druckfertig,” manuscript for Lectures on Boolean Algebras, circa 1963 4La72 Algebraic and Quasi-algebraic operators, book chapter or paper, photocopy of handwritten manuscript, June 25, 1970 4La85 “How to Write Mathematics” 4La85 Correspondence, fan mail, and translations, 1970-1975 4La85 Translations, correspondence, and related publications, 1976-1981 4La86 “Products of Shifts,” notes, 1972 4La72 “American Mathematics from 1940 to the Day Before Yesterday,” with J.H. Ewing, W.H. Gustafson, S.H. Moolgavkar, W.H. Wheeler, and W.P. Ziemer 4La72 Unused history, [notes, drafts, etc.], 1973-1977 4La72 Published copies, 1976, undated 4La85 “How to Talk Mathematics” 4La85 Correspondence and notes, 1973-1976, undated 4La85 Drafts, publication, and translations, 1973-1977 4La86 Review of Creative Teaching: Heritage of R.L. Moore by D. Reginald Traylor, 1973-1974 4La86 “Limsups of Lats,” correspondence about paper, 1974-1980 4La103 “Springer-Verlag Agreements,” 1974-1992 4La72 Mathematical Intelligencer, mostly book review material, [also includes some Monthly items], 1977-1982 4La72 Letter from Leonard C. Gamble re PRH paper, 1977 4La85 “Finite-dimensional Points of Continuity of Lat,” with J.B. Conway, 1979-1980 4La85 “The Heart of Mathematics,” 1979-1981 4La72 “Applied Mathematics is Bad Mathematics” 4La72 Drafts, 1980 4La72 Typed drafts, circa 1980 4La86 Review of The William Lowell Putnam Competition, Problems and Solutions, 1938-1964, 1980-1981 4La87 “The Work of F. Riesz,” manuscripts and photocopy of published article, circa 1980 4La72 “Asymptotic Toeplitz Operators,” with José Barría, 1981 4La103 “Elements,” correspondence about article, 1981-1982 4La86 “The Monthly and Me,” MAA FOCUS, 1981-1982 4La86 “Quadratic Interpolation,” paper drafts and reprints, correspondence, 1981-1982, undated 4La87 “Weakly Transitive Matrices,” with José Barriá, 1981 4La124 “Reference,” notes and articles about refereeing, circa 1983 4La72 “Béla Szökefalvi-Nagy,” circa 1984 4La103 “Congress,” “Why Is a Congress?” correspondence and drafts, [photographs removed to Paul Halmos Photograph Collection], 1986-1987 4La103 “Kleene,” book review drafts and correspondence, 1989 4La103 “MAA:Letters,” correspondence about “Has Progress in Mathematics Slowed Down?” 1989-1991 4La124 “Postcards from Max,” American Mathematical Monthly printouts, 1993 4La125 Linear Algebra Problem Book, copy of back cover, 1994 4La103 Logic email and correspondence, 1994 4La125 Book list, circa 1998 4La103 “Part I, The Axioms,” manuscript, undated 4La86 “Limits of Shifts,” and manuscript for “The Algebra and Topology of Shifts,” undated 4La86 Published lectures and conference proceedings 4La86 “Spectral Approximants of Normal Operators” 4La86 Colloquium talk, 1968 4La86 Drafts and proofs, 1973, undated 4La86 “The Teaching of Problem Solving” 4La86 Lecture from panel discussion, “The Problem of Learning to Teach,” with E. Moise and G. Piranian, 1973-1975 4La86 [How to Teach], drafts, notes, correspondence, 1973-1978, undated 4La87 “What to Publish,” panel discussion and paper, 1974-1976 4La86 “Some Unsolved Problems of Unknown Depth about Operators on Hilbert Space” 4La86 Correspondence, drafts, and proofs, 1976 4La86 Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1976-1977 4La85 Integral Operators, correspondence, 1977-1979 4La85 Integral operators, old lectures, undated 4La104 I Want to Be a Mathematician 4La104 “Materials,” notes (2 folders), 1969-1987, undated 4La104 “ITBM New,” correspondence and reviews, 1974, 1986-1998 4La104 “HTBM Correspondence,” 1982-1984 4La125 “Draft 0,” handwritten and typed drafts, 1982 4La125 Correspondence (3 folders), 1984-1985, 1985-1986, 1995 4La104 “ATHAN,” positive reviews and correspondence about I Want to be a Mathematician, 1985-1992 4La104 Reviews and fan mail, 1985-1987 4La87 Von Neumann 4La87 Documents, [research], 1947-1964 4La87 Useless, 1954-1970, undated 4La87 Movie, 1966-1968, undated 4La87 Correspondence, 1972-1974 4La87 “John Von Neumann,” for Encyclopedia Britannica, Draft 0-4, and final draft [draft 6], 1972, undated 4La87 “The Legend of John Von Neumann,” 1972-1973 4La124 “The Legend of John von Neumann,” typed manuscript and reprints, 1972, 2004, undated 4La124 Von Neumann talk/”The Legend of John Von Neumann,” 1973, undated 4La105 Reprints by Halmos 4La105 6 folders, 1938-1981 1.7/2005-062/16 Reprints and proofs [separated from the Abraham Robinson Papers], 1948-1970 4La122 Reprints, 1950-1998 4La122 Reprints, contents from binder, 1957, 1974-1978 4La122 Reprints by Halmos, “Paul Halmos: Maverick Mathologist,” by Donald J. Albers, 1957-1958, 1977-1983 4La106 Reprints, 4 folders, 1982-1998, undated 4La107 Bound reprints by Halmos 4La107 “1,” 1938-1942 4La122 “Reprints, 1938-1957,” bound, 1938-1957 4La107 “Halmos Reprints, 1951-1957,” 1951-1957 4La122 “Reprints, 1958-1973,” bound, 1958-1973 4La123 “Rejecta Research Contributions, 1938-1983,” unpublished, bound, 1983 4La124, 4La107 Reprints by Halmos, bound, 2 copies, 1958-1990 4La122, 4La108 Reprints by Halmos, bound, 2 copies, 1982-1992 4La106 Books by Halmos 4La106 Algebraic Logic, 1962 4La107 The Chauvenet Papers: A Collection of Prize-Winning Expository Papers in Mathematics, Ed. J. C. Abbott, 1978 4La106 A Hilbert Space Problem Book, 2nd Edition, with 2 letters, 1982, 1987-1988 4La123 “Selecta Research Contributions, 1939-1982,” Halmos’s copy of his selected work, 1983 4La123 “Selecta Expository Writing, 1944-1982,” Halmos’s copy of selected work, 1983 4La126 Reviews of Halmos publications 4La126 “Reviews,” of Halmos publications, one referee review by Halmos, 1972, 1986, 1990-1992 4La125 Reviews and notices of Halmos books, 1991-1992, 1995 4La126 Reprints by others 4La126 Reprints about Halmos by D. Albers and A. Dijksma, 1995 4La126 Reprints by others (3 folders), 1900, 1935-1978, 1978-1987, undated 4La108 Bound reprints by others 4La108 “Probability I,” 1920s, 1930s 4La108 “Probability II,” 1929-1939 4La108 “Probablility 3,” 1931-1940 4La108 “Probability 4,” 1930-1940 4La109 “Operators, von Neumann,” 1940 4La109 Books by others 4La109 Foundations of Point Set Theory, R. L. Moore, 1932 4La109 Printed materials 4La109 Quaestiones Mathematicae circular, 1990 4La109 “Topology,” excerpts from Set Theory and Metric Spaces by Irving Kaplansky, undated 4La129 Obituary - Kaufman-Bühler, Walter, 1986 IV. Lectures 4La120 “Mathematical Machines,” 1957 4La98 “Problem Talk Records,” 1963-1986 4La121 “Scotland,” British Mathematical Colloquium, 1964-1965 4La121 “Hungary 1965,” letters, notes, tourist information, 1965 4La98 “Some problems,” 1967-1968, 1972, 1980 4La121 “Finite – Dimensional Hilbert Spaces,” 1969 4La72 Various, [folder labeled ‘Talks 1968’], 1970 4La72 Algebraic operators, lecture notes, 1970-1971, undated 4La72 “Bounded Matrices,” lecture notes, March 1970 4La121 Three talks, “Non-commutative approximation theory,” “How Normal Should You Be?” “Is Every Matrix Symmetric?” 1973, 1993-1994 4La87 Unsolved problems, notes, 1976-1977, undated 4La86 “Ten Solutions in Hilbert Space” 4La86 Texas Christian University Regional Conference on Hilbert Space, 1978-1979 4La86 From survey talk, 1979-1980 4La86 Lecture, 1979 4La85 “A Decade of Progress in Operator Theory,” 1979, undated 4La121 “Why Do Mathematicians Get Paid and What Do They Do for It?” 1982 4La98 “Questions,” 1983-1985 4La98 “Language,” manuscript, 1984 4La98 “Problems Tel-Aviv,” manuscript, 1985 4La98 “Ramsey,” lecture manuscripts and notes, 1985, undated 4La98 “MAA/DC,” notes and manuscripts for “Is Your Mathematics the Same as Your Grandfather’s?” 1986-1989, undated 4La121 “Fifty Years of Linear Algebra,” correspondence, 1986-1988 4La98 “Problems,” notes and manuscripts, 1988-1994 4La98 California Mathematics Council Community Colleges (CMC3) lecture correspondence, 1989 4La98 “Memops,” notes and lecture on operator theory, 1989 4La121 Untitled talk about “chomp,” letter from Martin Gardner, circa 1989 4La121 “Spain,” correspondence, itinerary, 1989-1991 4La98 “Everything…” manuscript for “Everything I Don’t Know About Matrices,” circa 1990 4La98 “Lecce,” manuscript and notes for talk, circa 1992 4La121 Talks, University of Mississippi, Oxford (MS), San Francisco State University, San Francisco (CA), New York University, New York – announcements, bulletin, letter, 1994 4La121 “Berkeley,” “Hundred Years of Analysis: A Personal Reminiscence,” manuscript, 1997 4La121 “My Religion of Mathematics,” 1997 4La72 “Big Matrices and Little Kernels: The Examples that Come Before the Theorems,” [notes, manuscripts, and lecture version], undated V. Notes/Research 4La97 “DOOB,” Topology notebook, 1936 4La114 Notebook, September 1936 4La114 “Notebook on the Theory of Numbers,” 1936 4La114 “Von Neumann,” 1939 4La114 “Invariant Measures” by John Von Neumann, with Halmos notes, 1940-1941 4La115 “Von Neumann”: “Invariant Measures” notes (photocopy), 1940-1941 4La115 “Martingales,” February 1956 4La115 “Axiomatic Set Theory,” 1958 4La115 “Toeplitz notes,” 1962 4La115 “Problems,” 1967, 1972-1986 4La115 “Int. Ops,” Theory of integral operators, 1974 4La116 “SET,” notes on set theory, 1975-1976 4La97 “Diary,” manuscript and notes from binder, 1976-1983, 1989, undated 4La97 Math diary, notes from binder, 1977-1981, undated 4La116 “LAT U.S.C.,” 1978-1980 4La116 Mathematical diary, 1979 4La116 “Hyperspace Topologies,” 1979-1982 4La97 “Diary, July 1980,” Mathematical notebook, 1980-1983 4La116 “Toeplitz:Finite,” 1982-1984 4La116 “Report on a trip to the Soviet Union, May 16-30, 1959,” by Lipman Bers, 1959 4La116 Index of Names – list of mathematicians, 1986 4La93 Problems 4La93 “1-40,” 1963-1967, 1971-1976, 1986-1991, undated 4La93 “41-80,” (2 folders) 1955, 1961-1976, 1984-1991, undated 4La93 “81-120,” 1963-1967, 1971-1976, 1986-1991 4La94 “121-160,” 1952, 1965, 1971-1991, undated 4La94 “161-200,” 1955, 1963-1995 4La94 “201-240,” 1955-1960, 1970-1991, undated 4La94 “241-280,” 1953, 1963-1964, 1970-1991, undated 4La95 “281-320,” 1953, 1960-1989, undated 4La95 “321-360,” 1952-1958, 1962-1968, 1971-1991, undated 4La95 “361-400,” 1961, 1991-1995 4La97 Problems notes, undated 4La96 Topical 4La96 “Finite, Fredholm, Functional Calculus, Geometry, Invariant, Lattice, Matrix, Miscellaneous,” (2 folders), 1959, 1963-1984, undated 4La96 “Normal, Number Range, Perturbation, Power Boundedness, Projection, Quasinilpotent, Quasitriangular, Reducible,” (2 folders), 1962-1977 4La96 “Shift, Subnormal, Toeplitz, Topology, Volterra, Weighted,” (2 folders), 1962-1982, undated 4La97 “Algebra, Approximation, Calkin, Category, Commutator, Compact, Cyclic, Dilate,” 1962-1982, undated VI. Correspondence 4La129 Anthony, Joby, letter, May 12, 1998 4La98 “Ambrose,” (Warren), 2 folders, 1965-1997 4La102 “AMS,” correspondence with foreign mathematicians, 1938, 1946, 1958-1959, 1973 4La119 “Axler” [Sheldon], 1992-1997 4La119 Doob, Joseph 4La119 "Doob," 1936-1998 4La129 1970-1993 4La102 “English,” letters and enclosed articles from Leonard Gillman, 1974-1996, undated 4La129 Ewing, John H., 1976-1993 4La119 General inquiries, 1957-1994 4La119 Gillman, Leonard 4La119 1978-1997 4La129 1993 4La99 “H,” 1967-1997 4La99 Helgason, Sigurdur, correspondence and reprints, 2000, undated 4La119 Hochschild, Gerhard, 1997 4La129 Kaufman-Bühler, Walter, 1977-1985 4La99 “L” 1976-1997, undated 4La99 Lefschetz, Simon, correspondence and list of pictures, 1964, undated 4La119 Lehrer, Tom, 1985-1986, 1997 4La99 “Nakano,” Kazumi, letter and photograph, 1988 4La119 National Academy of Sciences, concerning 1965 Russia trip, 1976 4La102 “Old Van Nostrand,” correspondence with and about the publisher, 1964-1974 4La99 “P,” 1977-1997, undated 4La100 Personal correspondence, 4 folders, includes photographs, 1973-1997 4La120 “Photo ackn.,” concerning photographs, 1965-1990 4La100 “R,” 1977-1996 4La120 Rogers, Patricia, emails, c.v., articles by Rogers, 1990-1994 4La120 “Russia 1965,” concerning National Academy of Sciences exchange trip, 1964-1965 4La101 “S,” 2 folders, 1968-1996 4La120 Smithies, Frank, 1996-1998 4La120 “Sokolowsky’ [Dan], letters to Halmos, 1989-1993 4La101 “T,” 1978-1994 4La101 Untermeyer, Louis, January 1971 4La101 “V,” 1979-1996, undated 4La120 “Von Neumann,” with Nicholas Vonneumann and others about his book The Philosophical Legacy of John von Neumann, 1986-1992 4La101 “W,” 1978-1997, undated 4La120 Wallen, Larry, 1976-1997 4La120 Wallen, Larry, 1982-1992 4La120 Email to Frank [Wattenberg], “Permuted Vectors,” undated 4La101 Weil, André, 1978, 1986 4La101 “Z,” 1985-1996 VII. Conferences/Travel Diaries 4La117 “Oberwolfach 1965,” correspondence, 1964-1965 4La117 “Budapest 1964,” travel diary, March 1964 4La117 Travel diary, 1966 4La117 St. Andrew’s Colloquium, correspondence, diary, 1970-1972 4La117 Travel diary, “Scotland Etc. 1973,” volumes 1 and 2, January-July 1973 4La117 Banach Spaces, group photo identification list, 1973 4La117 Vacation Course on Banach Algebras – 2 diaries, programme, participant list, 1976 4La117 “Approximation and Functional Analysis,” Germany, correspondence, 1979-1980 4La117 Travel diary, St Andrew’s, Oberwolfach, Budapest, Summer 1980 4La117 International conference on functional analysis, University of California Santa Barbara, participant list, 1985 4La117 “Budapest 88,” correspondence about algebraic logic conference, 1988 4La117 “Lecce,” University of Lecce mathematics department 25th anniversary, 1992 4La117 International Linear Algebra Society – Florida, program, March 1993 4La117 Journal for unidentified event, May 1995 4La117 Banach Space participant list, undated VIII. Personal 4La129 Correspondence 4La129 Delay, Rita (neé Chang?), 1986-1997 4La130 Greenberg, John L. (includes 3.5 x 5 disk), 1997-1999 4La130 Laemmle, Alyse, 1977-1985, 1995-1999 4La130 Leibling, Jean Stafford, letter, December 29, 1971 4La130 Robertson, Wendy, Alexander, and Vivien, 1968-1996 4La130 Unidentified correspondent, email, 1998 4La130 Unidentified correspondent, letter in Hungarian, undated 4La130 Miscellaneous 4La130 Official documents – passports, birth certificates, U. S. citizenship certificate, marriage certificate, 1906, 1915-1916, 1945-1971 4La110 “Paula Halmos,” correspondence and clippings, circa 1916 4La110 Legal papers – accident settlement, annulment, separations and divorce decrees, 1933, 1938, 1945 4La110 Certificates, degrees and transcripts, Social Security Card, 1934-1939, undated 4La110 West German postage stamp, gift from Tom McKnight, April 1983 4La110 Birthday lists, 1989, 1994 4La130 Personal journal of poetry and prose, autumn 1944 4La130 “Curiosa” – notes, articles, poems, 1970s-1990s 4La130 “Aftermath” – Halmos interview transcript with T. P. Speed, December 1976 4La130 Monetary donation to Santa Clara University, 1995 4La130 Akadémiai Értesítő – Hungarian newletter, 1998 4La130 Certificate for biographical record in Who’s Who in America, information sheet, 1994 4La127 Envelope, RESTRICTED until 2020, undated IX. Photographs 4La110 Paula Halmos, unidentified woman (removed from Correspondence, “T”), 1915, circa 1989 X. Artifacts 2009-020/1 (LSF)Honorary Degree Hoods D.Sc., 1980, University of St. Andrews, Scotland (white satin with dark rose-colored faille) D.Sc., 1984, De Pauw University (gold velvet, solid gold satin) Doctor of Humane Letters, 1986, Kalamazoo College (white velvet, orange satin with black chevrons) Doctor of Mathematics, honoris causa, 1990, University of Waterloo (white satin, maroon satin)