Mathematician:Nathan Jacob Fine
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Mathematician
American mathematician who worked on basic hypergeometric series.
Best known for his lecture notes on the subject which were used as a standard, until they were finally published as a book.
Solved the jeep problem in $1946$.
Nationality
American
History
- Born: 22 October 1916 in Philadelphia
- Died: 18 November 1994 in Deerfield Beach, Florida
Theorems and Definitions
Publications
- 1947: Binomial Coefficients Modulo a Prime (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 54: pp. 589 – 592) www.jstor.org/stable/2304500
- 1988: Basic Hypergeometric Series and Applications
Also known as
Known informally as Nat.
Sources
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Nathan Jacob Fine": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- June 1995: George E. Andrews: Nathan Fine 1916–1994 (Not. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 42, no. 6: pp. 678 – 679)