Orrin Frink

Orrin Frink, Jr. (31 May 1901 – 4 March 1988) was an American mathematician who introduced Frink ideals in 1954.

Contents

• Orrin frink v francis j le count brooklyn 1923
• Orrin Frink
• Selected publications
• Additional reading
• References

Frink earned a doctorate from Columbia University in 1926 or 1927 and worked on the faculty of Pennsylvania State University for 41 years, 11 of them as department chair. 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.

Aline Huke Frink, his wife, was also a mathematician at Penn State. Their son, also named Orrin Frink, became a professor of Slavic languages at Ohio University and Iowa State University.