Paul Sally

Paul Sally
Paul Sally in 2008
Born
Paul Joseph Sally Jr.

(1933-01-29)January 29, 1933
Roslindale, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedDecember 30, 2013(2013-12-30) (aged 80)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Education
SpouseJudith D. Sally
Scientific career
WorkplacesUniversity of Chicago
Ray Kunze

Paul Joseph Sally Jr. (January 29, 1933 – December 30, 2013) was a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago, where he was the director of undergraduate studies for 30 years. His research areas were p-adic analysis and representation theory.

Life and education

Sally was born in the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts on January 29, 1933. He was a star basketball player at Boston College High School. He received his BS and MS degrees from Boston College in 1954 and 1956.

After a short career in Boston area high schools and at Boston College, he entered the first class of mathematics graduate students at Brandeis in 1957, and earned his PhD in 1965. 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, Stephen is a partner at White & Case (previously Ropes & Gray), and Paul, the youngest, is Superintendent at New Trier High School.

Sally was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1948. The condition resulted in his use of an eye patch and two prosthetic legs, which caused him to be widely referred to as "Professor Pirate," and "The Math Pirate" around the University of Chicago campus. 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.

Career

Sally joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1965 and taught there until his death. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1967–68, 1971–72, 1981–82, and 1983–84.

While at the IAS he collaborated with Joseph Shalika. 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").

He founded Seminars for Elementary Specialists and Mathematics Educators (SESAME) in 1992. 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.

Death

Graves of Paul and Judith Sally at Maryhill Catholic Cemetery

Sally died December 30, 2013, aged 80, from congestive heart failure, at the University of Chicago Hospital, and was buried at Maryhill Catholic Cemetery in Niles, Illinois.

Awards

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ "Department of Mathematics: People". University of Chicago. Retrieved September 16, 2008.
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  3. ↑ "Department of Mathematics: About". University of Chicago. Retrieved September 16, 2008.
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  7. 1 2 Steele, Diana (May 25, 1995). "Amoco Teaching Award: Paul Sally". University of Chicago Chronicle. Retrieved September 16, 2008.
  8. ↑ "Sally Award". Boston College. Retrieved September 17, 2008.
  9. ↑ "Tuck School of Business Faculty Directory". Dartmouth College. Retrieved May 8, 2011.
  10. ↑ "White & Case Professional Directory". White & Case. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
  11. ↑ "Ropes & Gray Professional Directory". Ropes & Gray. Retrieved May 8, 2011.
  12. ↑ "New Trier High School Staff Directory". New Trier High School. Archived from the original on January 25, 2011. Retrieved May 8, 2011.
  13. ↑ Shaw, Susan (March 2004). "Keeping Your Toes & Feet Healthy". Diabetes Health. Archived from the original on May 10, 2008. Retrieved September 16, 2008.
  14. ↑ "Paul J. Sally, Jr., influential mathematician and educator, 1933 – 2013". January 2, 2014.
  15. ↑ "Past Members Alphabetical: S | IAS School of Mathematics". Math.ias.edu. August 29, 2008. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  16. ↑ Sally Jr, P. J.; Shalika, J.A. (1968). "Characters of the discrete series of representations of SL(2) over a local field". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 61 (4): 1231–1237. Bibcode:1968PNAS...61.1231S. doi:10.1073/pnas.61.4.1231. PMC 225245. PMID 16591722.
  17. ↑ "Paul Sally Gives the Arnold Ross Lecture" (PDF). AMS Member Newsletter. American Mathematical Society: 4. Winter 2004. Retrieved September 16, 2008.
  18. ↑ Paul Sally Jr. Obituary, Chicago Tribune, retrieved 2014-01-01.
  19. ↑ "Chicago Tribune Obituary". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
  20. ↑ Koppes, Steve (January 23, 2003). "Sally says students need more than math 'appreciation'". University of Chicago Chronicle. Retrieved September 16, 2008.
  21. 1 2 "Mathematical Association of America: Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics" (PDF). January 2002 Prizes and Awards. San Diego, CA: Joint Mathematics Meetings. January 7, 2002. pp. 36–40. Retrieved September 16, 2008.
  22. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society; Ams.org, retrieved 2013-07-11.
  23. ↑ Holdener, Judy (October 2009). "Review: Roots to Research: A Vertical Development of Mathematical Problems by Judith Sally and Paul J. Sally, Jr". Amer. Math. Monthly. 116 (8): 754–758. doi:10.4169/193009709X460921. JSTOR 40391219. S2CID 218545393.