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Sam Holland, Professor Emeritus
Office LGRT 1344
Phone (413) 545-1775
Fax (413) 545-1801
Email holland <at> math.umass.edu
Mailing Address
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Lederle Graduate Research Tower
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-9305
Education  
BS, PhysicsMIT, 1950
MS, MathU. Chicago, 1953
Phd, MathHarvard, 1961
Research Interests: ordered *-fields, Hilbert space, Baer *-rings, valuation theory, lattice theory, quantum mechanics
Selected Publications
My years as a full-time mathematician, Math. Intelligencer (2000), 4-8
Projections algebraically generate the bounded operators on real or quaternionic Hilbert space, Proc. Amer. Soc. 123 (1995), 3361-3362
Orthomodularity in infinite dimensions; a theorem of M. Soler, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 32 (1995), 205-234



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