Allen Shields

Allen Lowell Shields (7 May 1927 in New York – 16 September 1989 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA) 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]

Notable students

Shields directed a large number of doctoral dissertations,[4][5] including 1967 PhD thesis of Theodore Kaczynski titled "Boundary Functions".[5]

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References
  1. Duren, Peter (1990), "In remembrance of Allen Shields", The Mathematical Intelligencer, 12 (2): 11–14, doi:10.1007/BF03023995, ISSN 0343-6993, MR 1044920
  2. Shapiro, Harold S. (1990), "Allen Lowell Shields—some reminiscences", The Mathematical Intelligencer, 12 (2): 8–10, doi:10.1007/BF03023994, MR 1044919
  3. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Allen Shields", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
  4. Axler, Sheldon (1990), "Dedication", The Mathematical Intelligencer, 12 (2): 3, doi:10.1007/BF03023992, MR 1044917
  5. Allen Shields at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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