Harold S. Shapiro
Harold Seymour Shapiro is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, best known for inventing the so-called Shapiro polynomials and for work on quadrature domains.
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. He is the father of cosmologist Max Tegmark, a graduate of the Royal Institute of Technology and now a professor at MIT.
