Allen Shields
American mathematician (1927–1989) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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Born | Allen Lowell Shields (1927-05-07)May 7, 1927 New York, U.S. |
Died | September 16, 1989(1989-09-16) (aged 62) Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
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Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Thesis | On Additive Properties of Real Numbers (1952) |
Doctoral advisor | Witold Hurewicz |
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Discipline | Mathematician |
Institutions | University of Michigan |
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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]