Paul Sally
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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]
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 earned his PhD in 1965.[6] During his graduate career he married Judith D. Sally and had three children in three years. 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 White & Case[11] (previously Ropes & Gray),[4][12] and Paul, the youngest, is Superintendent at New Trier High School.[4][13]
Sally was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1948.[14] The condition resulted in his use of an eye patch and two prosthetic legs,[15] 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 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.[16]
While at the IAS he collaborated with Joseph Shalika.[17] 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][18]
Death
Sally died December 30, 2013, aged 80, from congestive heart failure, at the University of Chicago Hospital.[2][19][20]
Awards
- Amoco Foundation Award for Long-Term Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1995[8][21]
- American Mathematical Society Distinguished Service Award, 2000[22]
- One of the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics of the Mathematical Association of America, 2002[22]
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012.[23]
Selected publications
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References
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External links
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