Allen Shields
Allen Lowell Shields (May 7, 1927 – September 16, 1989) was an American mathematician who worked on measure theory, complex analysis, functional analysis and operator theory,[1][2][3] and was "one of the world's leading authorities on spaces of analytic functions."[4]
Allen Shields | |
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| Born | May 7, 1927 New York, US |
| Died | September 16, 1989 (aged 62) |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Michigan |
| Thesis | On additive properties of real numbers (1952) |
| Doctoral advisor | Witold Hurewicz |
| Doctoral students | Theodore Kaczynski Joel Shapiro Russell Lyons |
Shields was a student of Witold Hurewicz.[5]
A special issue of The Mathematical Intelligencer, for which he served as editor of the "Years Ago" column, was dedicated to his memory in 1990.[4]
Notable students
Shields directed a large number of doctoral dissertations,[4][5] including the 1967 PhD thesis of Theodore Kaczynski titled "Boundary Functions".[5]
References
- Duren, Peter (1990), "In remembrance of Allen Shields", The Mathematical Intelligencer, 12 (2): 11–14, doi:10.1007/BF03023995, ISSN 0343-6993, MR 1044920, S2CID 122157471
- Shapiro, Harold S. (1990), "Allen Lowell Shields – some reminiscences", The Mathematical Intelligencer, 12 (2): 8–10, doi:10.1007/BF03023994, MR 1044919, S2CID 120565153
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Allen Shields", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews
- Axler, Sheldon (1990), "Dedication", The Mathematical Intelligencer, 12 (2): 3, doi:10.1007/BF03023992, MR 1044917
- Allen Shields at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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