Orrin Frink
| Orrin Frink, Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 31, 1901 Brooklyn, New York |
| Died |
March 4, 1988 (aged 86) Kennebunkport, Maine |
| Residence | USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Pennsylvania State University |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Known for | Frink ideal |
Orrin Frink, Jr. (31 May 1901 – 4 March 1988)[1] was an American mathematician who introduced Frink ideals in 1954.
Frink earned a doctorate from Columbia University in 1926 or 1927.[1][2] and worked on the faculty of Pennsylvania State University for 41 years, 11 of them as department chair.[1] His time at Penn State was interrupted by service as assistant chief engineer at the Special Projects Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base during World War II, and by two Fulbright fellowships to Dublin, Ireland in the 1960s.[3]
Aline Huke Frink, his wife, was also a mathematician at Penn State.[3] Their son, also named Orrin Frink, became a professor of Slavic languages at Ohio University and Iowa State University.[3][4]
Selected publications
- Frink, Orrin (1954). "Ideals in partially ordered sets". American Mathematical Monthly 61: 223–234. doi:10.2307/2306387. MR 61575.
- Frink, Orrin (July 1933). "Jordan measure and Riemann integration". The Annals of Mathematics. 2 34 (3): 518–526. ISSN 0003-486X. JSTOR 1968175.
- Frink, Orrin (1926), "A proof of Petersen’s theorem", Annals of Mathematics, Second Series 27 (4): 491–493, doi:10.2307/1967699, ISSN 0003-486X
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Orrin Frink, Mathematician, 86", New York Times, March 17, 1988.
- ↑ Orrin Frink at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (April 17, 2009), Supplementary Material For Pioneering Women In American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's, American Mathematical Society
- ↑ Russell, Jenna (January 28, 2008), "Golf club says abutter's driveway has a bad lie: Maine planning board mulls resident's legacy vs. legality", Boston Globe.
Additional reading
- Who Was Who in America: with World Notables (ISBN 0837902177), by Marquis Who's Who, Inc., Volume 9, 1989.
External links
- Orrin Frink at Find A Grave