Nathan Jacob Fine (22 October 1916 in Philadelphia – 18 November 1994 in Deerfield Beach, Florida) was an American mathematician who worked on basic hypergeometric series. He is best known for his lecture notes on the subject which for four decades served as an inspiration to experts in the field until they were finally published as a book. He solved the Jeep problem in 1946.
Nathan Jacob Fine | |
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| Born | October 22, 1916 Philadelphia, USA |
| Died | November 18, 1994 (aged 78) Deerfield Beach, Florida, USA |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Notable work | Basic Hypergeometric Series and Applications |
Nathan Fine retired in 1978 as a professor at Pennsylvania State University. Prior to that he had been on the faculties of the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University. For a brief period (1946–1947) he also worked at the Operations Evaluation Group, affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Beside the book he published about 40 papers in several fields of mathematics. He is known for the Rogers-Fine identity.[1]
Nathan Fine received his Ph.D. in 1946 from University of Pennsylvania, where he was a student of Antoni Zygmund. Fine was at the Institute for Advanced Study for the three academic years 1953–1954, 1958–1959, and 1959–1960.[2] Fine's doctoral students include J. J. Price.
He wrote the book Basic Hypergeometric Series and Applications ISBN 0-8218-1524-5.[3][4]
Selected publications
edit- ——; Niven, Ivan (1944). "The probability that a determinant be congruent to a (mod m)". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 50 (2): 89–94. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1944-08085-3.
- —— (1948). "Some New Results on Partitions". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 34 (12): 616–618. Bibcode:1948PNAS...34..616F. doi:10.1073/pnas.34.12.616. JSTOR 88084. PMC 1079179. PMID 16588844.
- —— (1949). "On the Walsh functions". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 65 (3): 372–414. doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1949-0032833-2.
- —— (1950). "Proof of a theorem of Jacobi". Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 1 (5): 666–667. doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1950-0038397-5.
- —— (1950). "The generalized Walsh functions". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 69: 66–77. doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1950-0042535-2.
- —— (1951). "Note on the Hurwitz zeta-function". Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 2 (3): 361–364. doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1951-0043194-1.
- —— (1954). "On the asymptotic distribution of certain sums". Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 5 (2): 243–252. doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1954-0064337-2.
- —— (1955). "Cesaro Summability of Walsh-Fourier Series". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 41 (8): 588–591. Bibcode:1955PNAS...41..588F. doi:10.1073/pnas.41.8.588. PMC 528139. PMID 16578449.
- —— (1957). "Fourier-Stieltjes series of Walsh functions". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 86: 246–255. doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1957-0091371-6.
- ——; Gillman, L. (1960). "Extension of continuous functions in ". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 66 (5): 376–382. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1960-10460-0.
- ——; Gillman, L. (1962). "Remote points in ". Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 13: 29. doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1962-0143172-5.
- ——; Wilf, H. S. (1965). "Uniqueness theorems for periodic functions". Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 16: 109–114. doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1965-0174934-9.
- —— (1965). "The distribution of the sum of digits (mod p)". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 71 (4): 651–653. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1965-11381-7.
References
edit- ^ Laughlin, James Mc (22 September 2017). "Chapter 9. The Rogers-Fine identity". Topics and Methods in q-Series. pp. 71–79. ISBN 9789813223387.
- ^ "Natham J. Fine". Institute for Advanced Study. 9 December 2019.
- ^ Askey, Richard (1989). "Review: Nathan J. Fine, Basic hypergeometric series and applications". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 21 (1): 130–132. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1989-15789-3.
- ^ Fine, Nathan Jacob (1988). Basic Hypergeometric Series and Applications. ISBN 9780821815243; pbk edition
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External links
edit- "Nathan Fine 1916–1994" – biography article by George Andrews
- Fine's Equation – in MathWorld
- "On Fine's Partition Theorems, Dyson, Andrews and Missed Opportunities" – popular article by Igor Pak
- Nathan Fine at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Nathan Fine", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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