A Glimpse at Hilbert Space Operators

Part I. Paul Halmos

1. Paul Halmos — Expositor Par Excellence
V. S. Sunder

2. Paul Halmos: In His Own Words
John Ewing

3. Obituary: Paul Halmos, 1916–2006
Heydar Radjavi, Peter Rosenthal

4. Mathematical Review of “How to Write Mathematics” by P.R. Halrnos
G. Piranian

5. Publications of Paul R. Halmos
Sheldon Axler, Peter Rosenthal, Donald Sarason

6. Photos
Sheldon Axler, Peter Rosenthal, Donald Sarason

Part II. Articles

7. What Can Hilbert Spaces Tell Us About Bounded Functions in the Bidisk?
Jim Agler, John E. McCarthy

8. Dilation Theory Yesterday and Today
William Arveson

9. Toeplitz Operators
Sheldon Axler

10. Dual Algebras and Invariant Subspaces
Hari Bercovici

11. The State of Subnormal Operators
John B. Conway, Nathan S. Feldman

12. Polynomially Hyponormal Operators
Raúl Curto, Mihai Putinar

13. Essentially Normal Operators
Kenneth R. Davidson

14. The Operator Fejér-Riesz Theorem
Michael A. Dritschel, James Rovnyak

15. A Halmos Doctrine and Shifts on Hilbert Space
Paul S. Muhly

16. The Behavior of Functions of Operators Under Perturbations
V. V. Peller

17. The Halmos Similarity Problem
Gilles Pisier

18. Paul Halmos and Invariant Subspaces
Heydar Radjavi, Peter Rosenthal

19. Commutant Lifting
Donald Sarason

20. Double Cones are Intervals
V. S. Sunder

Nyckelord: Mathematics, Operator Theory