Allen Shields | |
---|---|
Born | Allen Lowell Shields May 7, 1927
New York, U.S. |
Died | September 16, 1989
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. | (aged 62)
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Thesis | On Additive Properties of Real Numbers (1952) |
Doctoral advisor | Witold Hurewicz |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Mathematician |
Institutions | University of Michigan |
Doctoral students |
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]
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]
Shields directed a large number of doctoral dissertations, [4] [5] including the 1967 PhD thesis of Theodore Kaczynski, the future 'Unabomber', titled "Boundary Functions". [5]