Allen Shields
Allen Lowell Shields (born May 7, 1927 in New York City , † September 16, 1989 in Ann Arbor , Michigan ) was an American mathematician .
Allen Shields' parents were journalists close to the labor movement. He studied at the City College of New York (with Emil Leon Post, among others ) with a bachelor's degree in 1949, although his studies were interrupted by military service in the Second World War and his stationing in Berlin in 1945/46. In 1952 he received his doctorate from Witold Hurewicz at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( On additive properties of real numbers ). His unofficial PhD supervisor was Raphaël Salem , who was at MIT at the time. As a post-doctoral student , he was at Tulane University , where he worked with Paul Mostert on topological semigroups. From 1956 he was at the University of Michigan , where he became a professor and remained for the rest of his career, apart from a time in New York from 1959 to 1961. In the mid-1970s he was head of the mathematics faculty and in 1979 received the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award .
Shields dealt with measure theory , functional analysis, function theory and operator theory. He was multilingual (including fluent German, Spanish, French, Russian) and translated math books from Russian. Shields also published on history of mathematics.
literature
- Memories and obituaries by Sheldon Axler, P. Duren, Paul Halmos, Frederick Gehring, D. Sarason, S. Zdravskovska (his wife) in Mathematical Intelligencer, Volume 12, 1990, No. 2
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Allen Shields. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- Mathematics Genealogy Project
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Shields, Allen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shields, Allen Lowell (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 1989 |
| Place of death | Ann Arbor , Michigan |