Maurice Haskell Heins (19 November 1915, Boston – 4 June 2015) was an American mathematician, specializing in
complex analysis
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and harmonic analysis.
Heins received his bachelor's degree in 1937, his master's degree in 1939, and his Ph.D. in 1940, under
Joseph L. Walsh
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Joseph Leonard Walsh (September 21, 1895 – December 6, 1973) was an American mathematician who worked mainly in the field of analysis. The Walsh function and the Walsh–Hadamard code are named after him. The Grace–Walsh–Szeg ...
, from Harvard University with thesis ''Extremal Problems for Functions Analytic and Single-Valued in a Doubly-Connected Region''. He then worked on topological methods from 1940 to 1942 as
Marston Morse
Harold Calvin Marston Morse (March 24, 1892 – June 22, 1977) was an American mathematician best known for his work on the ''calculus of variations in the large'', a subject where he introduced the technique of differential topology now known a ...
's assistant at the
Institute for Advanced Study
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in Princeton. Heins was from 1942 to 1944 an assistant professor at the
Illinois Institute of Technology
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and in 1944–1945 an applied mathematician at the Chief Ordnance Office of the U.S. Army. In 1945 he became an assistant professor at
Brown University, where he eventually became a full professor. He was a full professor at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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from 1958 to 1974. From 1974 to 1986 he was a Distinguished Professor at the
University of Maryland
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. He was the supervisor for 19 Ph.D. theses. His doctoral students include
Bernard Epstein and
Jang-Mei Wu.
In the academic year 1952–1953 Heins was a Fulbright Fellow at the
Sorbonne and in 1979 a visiting professor at the
University of Paris VI. In the academic year 1963–1964 he was a visiting professor at the
University of California, Berkeley
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.
Heins was elected a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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, a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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in 1956, and a Fellow of the
American Mathematical Society
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in 2012. He was an Invited Speaker at the
ICM in 1958 in Edinburgh.
In 1940 he married Hadassah Wagman (bachelor's degree 1939 Radcliffe). Upon his death he was survived by his widow, two children, four grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren. Albert Edward Heins, one of Maurice Heins's two brothers, was also a prominent mathematician.
Selected publications
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* with R. Nevanlinna and others: Analytic Functions (Conference on Analytic Functions held in 1957 at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.), Princeton University Press 1960
**Contents: On differentiable mappings, by R. Nevanlinna.--Analysis in non-compact complex spaces, by H. Behnke and H. Grauert.--The complex analytic structure of the space of closed Riemann surfaces, by L.V. Ahlfors.--Some remarks on perturbation of structure, by D.C. Spencer.--Quasiconformal mappings and Teichmüller's theorem, by L. Bers.--On compact analytic surfaces, by K. Kodaira.--The conformal mapping of Riemann surfaces, by M. Heins.--On certain coefficients of univalent functions, by J.A. Jenkins.
* Selected Topics in the Classical Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable, Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1962
Dover reprint, 2105* Complex Function Theory, Academic Press 1968
Springer Verlag 1969
References
External links
photo with the widow Louise Morse at Marston Morse's funeral 1977, IAS Collection
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1915 births
2015 deaths
Boston Latin School alumni
Harvard University alumni
Brown University faculty
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
20th-century American mathematicians
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society