Henry Burchard Fine

Henry Burchard Fine
Born (1858-09-14)September 14, 1858
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
Died December 22, 1928(1928-12-22) (aged 70)
Princeton, New Jersey
Nationality United States
Alma mater University of Leipzig
Princeton University
Children John B. Fine
May Margaret Fine
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Princeton University
Doctoral advisors Felix Klein
Carl Neumann

Henry Burchard Fine (September 14, 1858 – December 22, 1928) was an American university dean and mathematician.

Life and career

Fine was born at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and was educated at Princeton University (A.B., 1880) and the University of Leipzig (Ph.D., 1885) universities. His Ph.D. thesis, On the singularities of curves of double curvature, was written under the supervision of Felix Klein and Carl Neumann.

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.

Obituary

References

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "article name needed". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
  • O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Henry Burchard Fine", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .
  • Henry Burchard Fine at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Academic offices
Preceded by
Dr. John Thomas Duffield		 Dod Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University
1891–1928		 Succeeded by
Luther P. Eisenhart
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