Paul Sally
Paul Joseph Sally Junior ( born January 29, 1933, Boston, Massachusetts, † December 30, 2013 in Chicago ) was an American mathematician who deals with p- adic Analysis and representation theory, and in particular with mathematics education.
Life and work
Sally studied at Boston College with a bachelor 's degree in 1954 and then taught in high schools. In 1956 he received a Master's degree from Boston College and in 1965 he received his doctorate at Ray Kunze at Brandeis University ( Analytic Continuation of the Irreducible Unitary Representations of the Universal Covering Group of the 2 x 2 real unimodular group). From 1965 he taught at the University of Chicago.
At the University of Chicago in 1967, he received his first award for teaching and coordinated from 1970 mathematics competitions for high school students in the Chicago area and organized a university program for high school students. In 1983, he was the first director of the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project ( UCSMP ) that issued the Everyday Mathematics program from 1998 ( also known as Chicago Math ), a novel curriculum for elementary school students ( with materials published by McGraw Hill ). Right at the beginning there were violent protests, as an open letter in the Washington Post to the Secretary in the Ministry of Education Richard Riley in 1999, signed the three Nobel Prize winners and four winner of the Fields Medal. The critics came the traditional elementary teaching material such as fracture Convert to short. Even in California it was initially not allowed ( that changed in 2007 with a special edition for California by McGraw Hill ), and in Texas, the third edition in 2007 has not been approved ( although it was already taught there at many schools for older editions ). Overall, the program was very successful. In 1992 he founded seminars for mathematics teachers ( Elementary Specialists and Mathematics Educators, SESAME ) and 1988 with Diane Herrmann Young Scholars Program for students in Chicago. He wrote several textbooks.
Sally was repeatedly at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he collaborated with Joseph Shalika.
In 2012 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
He was a diabetic and due to his illness he was wearing two leg prostheses and an eye patch. He was married to the mathematician Judith D. Sally and has three sons.
Writings
- Trimathlon: a workout beyond the school curriculum, AK Peters 2003
- With Diane Herrmann: Number, Shape and Symmetry: an Introduction to Mathematics, Brooks Cole 2004
- With Diane Herrmann: Number Theory and Geometry for College Students, Brooks Cole 2005
- With Judith Sally: Roots to Research: A Vertical Development of Mathematical problem, AMS 2007
- Tools of the Trade: Introduction to Advanced Mathematics, AMS 2008
- With JA Shalika Characters of the discrete series of representations of SL (2 ) over a local field, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 1968