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Nationality
  
American

Education
  
Columbia University

Alma mater
  
Columbia University

Known for
  
Frink ideal

Fields
  
Mathematics

Name
  
Orrin Frink


Orrin Frink Orrin Frink 1901 1988 Find A Grave Memorial

Born
  
May 31, 1901 Brooklyn, New York (
1901-05-31
)

Institutions
  
Pennsylvania State University

Died
  
March 4, 1988, Kennebunkport, Maine, United States

Residence
  
United States of America

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

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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.

Selected publications

  • Frink, Orrin (1954). "Ideals in partially ordered sets". American Mathematical Monthly. 61: 223–234. MR 61575. doi:10.2307/2306387. 
  • 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, ISSN 0003-486X, doi:10.2307/1967699 

    • Additional reading

  • Who Was Who in America: with World Notables (ISBN 0837902177), by Marquis Who's Who, Inc., Volume 9, 1989.

    • References

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