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Elias M. Stein was a leading figure in twentieth-century harmonic analysis, spending more than five decades on the Princeton faculty where he trained generations of mathematicians in the field. His work on singular integrals and function spaces became foundational tools used across mathematical analysis, and he held the university's Albert Baldwin Dod chair in mathematics until his death in 2018.