Harold S. Shapiro
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 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Royal Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Norman Levinson |
Harold Seymour Shapiro (2 April 1928 – 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.