Paul Halmos

Les livres et les articles de Paul Halmos (1916-2006) ont eu une grande influence sur l'enseignement des mathématiques. Il était assistant du légendaire John von Neumann quand il a écrit son premier livre, Finite dimensional vector spaces (1942), le... Lire la suite

First Published in 1998. This is Volume XVIII, the final of eighteen in the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology series. Initially written in 1957, this book deals centrally with the concepts of 'normal' and 'abnormal' in human personality and... Lire la suite

Are human misery, poverty and despair a result of personal inadequacy or social injustice? Therefore is the solution to these problems psychotherapy or political action? In one of the most important books on social work for a decade, Paul Halmos... Lire la suite

First Published in 1998. This is Volume IV of eighteen in the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology series This is a study of social isolation, plus its causes. Written in 1952 rather than just ask what is wrong with the state of the world today, Dr... Lire la suite