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Frank Lauren Hitchcock (1875–1957)
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| Born | March 6, 1875 New York, USA |
| Died | May 31, 1957 Los Angeles, USA |
| Residence | USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Physicist and mathematician |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology North Dakota State University |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Phillips Andover Academy |
| Doctoral students | Gleason Kenrick Claude Shannon |
| Known for | Transportation problem |
Frank Lauren Hitchcock (1875–1957) was an American mathematician and physicist notable for vector analysis. He formulated the transportation problem in 1941. He was also an expert in mathematical chemistry and quaternions.
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He first attended the Phillips Andover Academy. He received his AB from Harvard in 1896. Before his PhD he taught at Paris and at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. In 1910 he completed his PhD at Harvard with a thesis entitled, Vector Functions of a Point.
In 1904–1906 he was a professor of chemistry at North Dakota State University, Fargo, and then he moved to become a professor of mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His mother was Susan Ida Porter (b. 1 January 1848, Middlebury, Vermont) and his father was Elisha Pike Hitchcock. His parents married on 27 June 1866. He had two sisters, Mary E. Hitchcock and Viola M. Hitchcock. He also had two brothers George P. Hitchcock and Ernest Van Ness Hitchcock. He was born in New York but raised in Pittsford, Vermont. He was descended from New England forebears.
He married Margaret Johnson Blakely (d. May 22, 1925) in Paris, France on May 25, 1899. They had three children, Lauren Blakely (b. March 18, 1900), John Edward (b. January 28, 1906, d. July 26, 1909), and George Blakely, January 12, 1910. At the time of his death he had 11 grandchildren and 6 great-grandsons.