Allen Shields
Allen Shields | |
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| Born | Allen Lowell Shields May 7, 1927 New York, U.S. |
| Died | September 16, 1989 (aged 62) Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
| Education | City College of New York (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Michigan |
| Thesis | On Additive Properties of Real Numbers (1952) |
| Doctoral advisor | Witold 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.