He seemed a bit formal and intimidating at first, but he turned out to be a warm, considerate person. He and his wife had me and several other students over to their house for dinner a couple of times, and he enjoyed talking with us about whatever youthful nerdish topics we were interested in.
I was about twenty years old then. I just realized that he was in his early sixties, a couple of years younger than I am now.
Also, interesting to read about the Moore method (I found vid the Algolia link). If I'll ever do some teaching stuff, I'll try Halmos' flavor of that method :-)
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
He seemed a bit formal and intimidating at first, but he turned out to be a warm, considerate person. He and his wife had me and several other students over to their house for dinner a couple of times, and he enjoyed talking with us about whatever youthful nerdish topics we were interested in.
I was about twenty years old then. I just realized that he was in his early sixties, a couple of years younger than I am now.