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Paul Halmos 75! To me that brings up another figure: I have known him now for 50 years — a pretty good fraction of my life. He was in fact the first mathematician I met when I arrived in this country, in 1941. I had had the great luck of getting out of Germany in 1936, to study in Switzerland, under Heinz Hopf; and by 1941 it was high time to get out (the Fremdenpolizei called me in frequently to ask me why I was still there). Another piece of luck was that some money was found for a year’s stay at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
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Samelson, H. (1991). Some Early Memories Around Paul Halmos. In: Ewing, J.H., Gehring, F.W. (eds) PAUL HALMOS Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0967-6_12
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