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.

Shields was a student of Witold Hurewicz.[1]

Notable students

Professor Shields supervised the 1967 PhD thesis of Theodore Kaczynski titled "Boundary Functions".

References

  • Duren, Peter (1990), "In remembrance of Allen Shields", The Mathematical Intelligencer, 12 (2): 11–14, doi:10.1007/BF03023995, ISSN 0343-6993, MR 1044920
  • O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Allen Shields", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .
  • "Issue dedicated to Allen Lowell Shields", The Mathematical Intelligencer, 12 (2), 1990, ISSN 0343-6993
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