David Winston Howard Shale (22 March 1932,
New Zealand
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– 7 January 2016) was a New Zealand-American mathematician, specializing in the mathematical foundations of quantum physics.
He is known as one of the namesakes of the
Segal–Shale-Weil representation.
After secondary and undergraduate education in New Zealand, Shale became a graduate student in mathematics at the
University of Chicago
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and received his Ph.D. there in 1960.
[ His thesis ''On certain groups of operators on Hilbert space'' was written under the supervision of Irving Segal.]University of California, Berkeley
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and then became in 1964 a professor at the University of Pennsylvania
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, where he continued teaching until his retirement.[
According to Irving Segal:
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1932 births
2016 deaths
New Zealand mathematicians
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
University of Chicago alumni
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Operator theorists
Probability theorists