Isador M. Sheffer
American mathematician
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| Intro | American mathematician | |||
| Places | United States of America | |||
| was | Mathematician | |||
| Work field | Mathematics | |||
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| Birth | 15 October 1901, Massachusetts, USA | |||
| Death | 20 April 1992 (aged 90 years) | |||
| Star sign | Libra | |||
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Isador Mitchell Sheffer (October 15, 1901–April 20, 1992) was an American mathematician best known for the Sheffer sequence of polynomials. Born in Massachusetts, he lived a large portion of his life in State College, Pennsylvania, where he was a Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.
He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1927, under the direction of George Birkhoff.