Frank Nelson Cole

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Frank Nelson Cole, Ph. D. (September 20, 1861May 26, 1926) was an American mathematician, born at Ashland, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard, where he lectured on mathematics from 1885 to 1887.

Later, he was employed at the University of Michigan and Columbia University. Professor Cole became secretary of the American Mathematical Society in 1895 and an editor of its Bulletin in 1897.

He published The Diurnal Variation of Barometric Pressure (1892). Cole died in New York City, aged 64.

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  • O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Frank Nelson Cole". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.