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.

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