Henry Burchard Fine

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

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 (A.B., 1880) and Leipzig (Ph.D., 1885) universities. 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:

• Euclid's Elements (1891)
• The Number System of Algebra (1891; second edition, 1903) PDF/DjVu copy from Internet Archive.
• A College Algebra (1904)
• Coördinate Geometry, with Henry Dallas Thompson (1909) PDF Copy from University of Michigan Historical Math Collection.
• Calculus (1927)

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

• Oswald Veblen, Henry Burchard Fine—In memoriam, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 35, (1929), pp. 726–730.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, 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

External links

• Works by Henry Burchard Fine at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Henry Burchard Fine at Internet Archive