Biography:Harold S. Shapiro
Harold Shapiro | |
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| Born | April 2, 1928 New York City , United States |
| Died | March 5, 2021 (aged 92) Stockholm, Sweden |
| Citizenship | United States |
| 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]
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.
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]
See also
- Rudin–Shapiro sequence
- List of Jewish mathematicians#S
References
- ↑ "Harold S. Shapiro Quotes". https://www.citatum.org/author/Harold_S._Shapiro.
- ↑ Harold S. Shapiro at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Tegmark, Max (5 March 2021). "Public post". https://facebook.com/100045709865628/posts/pcb.267293251471002. "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
- Shapiro's homepage
- Weisstein, Eric W.. "Rudin–Shapiro Sequence". http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Rudin-ShapiroSequence.html.
- Rudin–Shapiro Curve by Eric Rowland, The Wolfram Demonstrations Project.
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