Orrin Frink
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Orrin Frink, Jr. | |
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Born | Brooklyn, New York |
May 31, 1901
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. 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
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See also
References
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- ↑ Orrin Frink at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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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