Nationality United States Doctoral advisor Felix Klein Fields Mathematics | Name Henry Fine | |
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Born September 14, 1858
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania ( 1858-09-14 ) Alma mater University of Leipzig
Princeton University Died December 22, 1928, Princeton, New Jersey, United States Education Leipzig University, Princeton University Books A College Algebra, Coordinate Geometry ‑ Illustrated, College Algebra by Henry Bu, A College Algebra ‑ Scholar's, The number‑system of algebra | ||
Institutions Princeton University | ||
Henry Burchard Fine (September 14, 1858 – December 22, 1928) was an American university dean and mathematician.
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Life and career
Fine was born at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and was educated at Princeton (A.B., 1880) and Leipzig (Ph.D., 1885) universities. At Princeton he was assistant professor (1885–1890), then became professor in 1890, and he also was dean of the faculty from 1903–1912 and dean of the department of science after 1909.
He was president of the American Mathematical Society in 1911–12.
Fine wrote:
Fine Hall, the building housing the Mathematics Department at Princeton, was named after him, in recognition of his key role in developing the mathematics faculty.
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