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Fiske, Thomas Scott, 1865-1944

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Personal name headingFiske, Thomas Scott, 1865-1944
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Variant(s)Fiske, Thomas S.
Birth date18650512
Death date19440110
Place of birthNew York (NY)
Place of deathPoughkeepsie (NY)
Field of activityMathematics
AffiliationNew York Mathematical Society American Mathematical Society
Columbia University
Profession or occupationFaculty (Education) Professor
Found inFunctions of a complex variable, 1907: title page (By Thomas S. Fiske)
Wikipeda, viewed 4/27/2017: (Thomas Scott Fiske was an American mathematician. He was born in New York City and graduated in 1885 (Ph.D., 1888) from Columbia University, where he was a fellow, assistant, tutor, instructor, and adjunct professor until 1897, when he became professor of mathematics. In 1899 he was acting dean of Barnard College. He was president in 1902-04 of the American Mathematical Society, and he also edited the Bulletin (1891-99) and Transactions (1899-1905) of this society. In 1902 he became secretary of the College Entrance Examination Board. Besides his mathematical papers, he was author of Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable (1906; fourth edition, 1907)).