Paul Sally
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Born | Paul Joseph Sally, Jr. January 29, 1933 Roslindale, Boston, Massachusetts |
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Chicago, Illinois |
Residence | Chicago, Illinois |
Institutions | University of Chicago |
Alma mater | Brandeis University |
Doctoral advisor | Ray Kunze |
Known for | Mathematics education and Mathematical Research |
Paul Joseph Sally, Jr. (January 29, 1933 – December 30, 2013) was a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago,[1] where he was the Director of Undergraduate Studies for 30 years.[2][3] His research areas were p-adic analysis and representation theory.[4] He created several programs to improve the preparation of school mathematics teachers, and was seen by many as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".[5]
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Life and education
Sally was born in the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts on January 29, 1933.[6][7] He was a star basketball player at Boston College High School.[4][7] He received his BS and MS degrees from Boston College in 1954 and 1956.[8] After a short career in Boston area high schools and at Boston College[9] he entered the first class of mathematics graduate students at Brandeis in 1957 [4] and received his Ph.D. in 1965.[6] During his graduate career he married Judith D. Sally and had three children in three years.[4] David, the oldest, is a Visiting Associate Professor of Business Administration at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College,[4][10] Stephen is a partner at Ropes & Gray,[4][11] and Paul, the youngest, is Assistant Superintendent For Curriculum and Instruction at New Trier High School[4][12]
Sally was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1948.[13] He wore an eye patch and had two prosthetic legs, which caused him to be widely referred to as "Professor Pirate," and "The Math Pirate" around the University of Chicago campus.[7] He was known to detest cell phones in class and has destroyed several over the years by inviting students to stomp on them or by throwing them out of a window.[4]
Career
Sally joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1965 and taught there until his death.[4] He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1967–68, 1971–72, 1981–82, and 1983-84.[14] While at the IAS he collaborated with Joseph Shalika.[15] In 1983, he became the first director of the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project, which is responsible for the Everyday Mathematics program (also called "Chicago math").[4] He founded Seminars for Elementary Specialists and Mathematics Educators (SESAME) in 1992.[4] He co-founded the Young Scholars Program with Dr. Diane Herrmann in 1988, providing mathematical enrichment for gifted Chicago-area students in grades 7–12.[4][16]
Death
Sally died December 30, 2013, aged 80.[2][17][18]
Awards
- Amoco Foundation Award for Long-Term Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1995[8][19]
- American Mathematical Society Distinguished Service Award, 2000[20]
- Deborah and Franklin Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics of the Mathematical Association of America, 2002[20]
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012.[21]
Selected publications
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References
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- ↑ https://www.math.ias.edu/people/past-alpha?letter=S
- ↑ Sally, P. J., Jr.; Shalika, J. A. (1968). Characters of the discrete series of representations of SL(2) over a local field. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.
- ↑ Paul Sally Jr. Obituary, retrieved 2014-01-01.
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- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-07-11.
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