Allen Shields

Allen Shields
Born
Allen Lowell Shields

(1927-05-07)May 7, 1927
New York, U.S.
DiedSeptember 16, 1989(1989-09-16) (aged 62)
EducationCity College of New York (BS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan
ThesisOn Additive Properties of Real Numbers (1952)
Doctoral advisorWitold Hurewicz
Other academic advisors Raphaël Salem
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, and was "one of the world's leading authorities on spaces of analytic functions."

Shields was a student of Witold Hurewicz.

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.