Harold S. Shapiro

Harold Seymour Shapiro (born 1928 in Brooklyn, New York) is a professor emeritus 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.

For other people with the same name, see Harold Shapiro (disambiguation).

His main research areas have been approximation theory, complex analysis, functional analysis, and partial differential equations. He is also interested in the pedagogy of problem-solving.

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.[1] He is the father of cosmologist Max Tegmark, a graduate of the Royal Institute of Technology and now a professor at MIT.

See also

References
  1. Harold S. Shapiro at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  • Shapiro's homepage
  • Weisstein, Eric W. "Rudin–Shapiro Sequence". MathWorld.
  • Rudin–Shapiro Curve by Eric Rowland, The Wolfram Demonstrations Project.


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