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Quotations by Paul Richard Halmos

Quotations by Paul Halmos - MacTutor History of Mathematics Home Biographies History Topics Map Curves Search Quotations Paul Halmos View the biography of Paul Halmos I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by Dorothy Maharam, and it was a perfectly sound contribution to abstract measure theory. The domains of the underlying measures were not sets but elements of more general Boolean algebras, and their range consisted not of positive numbers but of certain abstract equivalence classes. My proposed first sentence was: "

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