Maurice Heins, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American mathematician
Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1915
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 04-Jun-2015
Profession: mathematician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Maurice Heins
- Maurice Haskell Heins (19 November 1915, Boston – 4 June 2015) was an American mathematician, specializing in complex analysis 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, 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's assistant at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
- Heins was from 1942 to 1944 an assistant professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology 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 from 1958 to 1974.
- From 1974 to 1986 he was a Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland.
- 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. Heins was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1956, and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society 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.
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