Harold S. Shapiro

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Harold Shapiro
Born	(1928-04-02)April 2, 1928 New York, United States
Died	March 5, 2021(2021-03-05) (aged 92) Stockholm, Sweden
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^[1] – 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.^{[citation needed]}