Notes on interview with Paul Halmos; Notes on interview with Paul Halmos

  • Interviewing Paul Halmos
  • Halmos's relationship with J. R. Silber
  • Silber's reasons for forcing Moore into retirement
  • Halmos's adaptation of the Moore method
  • Competition and camaraderie in the classroom
  • Halmos's observations of Moore's teaching
  • The recent and current student of Moore
  • Halmos's disagreement with Moore's teaching philosophy
  • The reason Halmos did not come to Texas
  • Halmos's criticism of the narrowness of Moore and his students
  • Donald E. Edmondson's disagreements with Moore
  • Moore controlling the mathematics department
  • Moore's involvement with University of Texas Plan 2 honors students
  • Moore and the administration
  • Sequenced courses