Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces by Halmos Paul 1916 2006 (1 results)

, Halmos, Paul R., 1916-2006. Finite-dimensional vector spaces. Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand, 1958, 2d edition, 200pp., very good gray cloth, BUT with pencil notations in margins on 5 pages, previous owner's name in ink. The University series in undergraduate mathematics. Substantial pencil comments at bottom of pages 120-121 8-lines. NOTE: Halmos on winning the Steele Prize (1983): "To earn his living, Lewis Carroll was a teacher, and, just for fun, because he loved to tell stories, he wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. To earn my living, I've been a teacher for almost fifty years, and, just for fun, because I love to organize and clarify, I wrote Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces. And what's the outcome? I doubt if as many as a dozen readers of these words have ever looked at either A Method of Taking Votes or "On automorphisms" but Lewis Carroll is immortal for the Alice stories, and I got the Steele Prize for exposition." HALMOS: Hungarian-born mathematician, Ph.D. University of Illinois 1938, became John von Neumann's assistant in 1940 and wrote his first book based on von Neumann's lectures. Taught at Syracuse, Chicago, and Michigan.