Harold S. Shapiro
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Harold Shapiro | |
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| Born | April 2, 1928 New York, United States |
| Died | March 5, 2021 (aged 92) |
| Alma mater | City College of New York MIT |
| Known for | Shapiro polynomials |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Royal Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Norman Levinson |
Harold Seymour Shapiro (2 April 1928[1] – 5 March 2021) was a professor of mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, best known for inventing the so-called Shapiro polynomials (also known as Golay–Shapiro polynomials or Rudin–Shapiro polynomials) and for work on quadrature domains.[citation needed]
Biography
[edit]Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish family, Shapiro earned a B.Sc. from the City College of New York in 1949 and earned his M.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951. He received his Ph.D. in 1952 from MIT; his thesis was written under the supervision of Norman Levinson.[2] He was the father of cosmologist Max Tegmark, a graduate of the Royal Institute of Technology and now a professor at MIT.[citation needed] Shapiro died on 5 March 2021, aged 92.[3]
Academic career
[edit]His main research areas were approximation theory, complex analysis, functional analysis, and partial differential equations. He was also interested in the pedagogy of problem-solving. He collaborated with Paul Erdős in June 1965 on "Large and small subspaces of Hilbert space", therefore he has an Erdős number of 1.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Harold S. Shapiro Quotes".
- ^ Harold S. Shapiro at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Tegmark, Max (5 March 2021). "Public post". Facebook.
My beloved dad died peacefully this morning, after 92 inspiring orbits around the sun, retaining his dark humor and epic stoicism until the very end.
External links
[edit]- Shapiro's homepage
- Weisstein, Eric W. "Rudin–Shapiro Sequence". MathWorld.
- Rudin–Shapiro Curve by Eric Rowland, The Wolfram Demonstrations Project.
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