Aline Huke Frink

Aline Huke Frink (born March 2, 1904 in Torrington (Connecticut) , † March 14, 2000 in Kennebunk , Maine ) was an American mathematician and university professor.

Life and research

Born Aline Huke, Huke Frike, the eldest of two daughters, received her elementary and secondary education in the public schools of South Hadley , Massachusetts , where she also attended high school from 1916 to 1920. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College and received her bachelor's degree Magna cum Laude in 1924 . She then taught physics and algebra at Cobleskill High School , New York, for two years . In 1926 she took courses in education at New York College for Teachers in Albany (now University at Albany, The State University of New York ) and studied at the University of Chicago .

In 1927 she wrote her master's thesis in mathematical physics under the direction of AC Lunn. From 1927 to 1928 she was a scholar in mathematics at Bryn Mawr College and studied with David Widder . In 1928 she studied at the University of Chicago on a graduate scholarship. From 1929 to 1930 she taught at Mount Holyoke College and received her doctorate in 1930 from the University of Chicago under Gilbert Ames Bliss with the dissertation An Historical and Critical Study of the Fundamental Lemma in the Calculus of Variations . She then taught mathematics at Pennsylvania State College (now Pennsylvania State University ).

In 1931 she married the mathematician Orrin Frink , with whom she had three sons and a daughter from 1932 to 1945. She taught part-time until 1944 and resumed her career as a full-time faculty member in 1947. She became assistant professor in 1952, associate professor in 1962 and professor emeritus in 1969. She had learned Russian in the late 1940s and translated, among other things, the book Calculus of Variations by Naum Ilyich Achijeser . She learned Chinese shortly before she retired. After retiring with her husband in 1969, she moved to Kennebunkport, Maine, to a home that her family had owned since 1747.

In 2006, their son John Frink donated $ 100,000 to the Pennsylvania State University's math department for a trustee matching scholarship in memory of his parents, Orrin and Aline Frink.

Publications

1931 (as A. Huke): An historical and critical study of the fundamental lemma in the calculus of variations. In Contributions to the Calculus of Variations , 1930, 131-89. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
1937: Distance functions and the metrization problem. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 43.
1938: with O. Frink: Polygonal variations. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44.
1960: Special variations. Tohoku Mathematical Journal . J. 2nd ser., 12.
1962: (Translation from Russian) The Calculus of Variations by NI Akhiezer. New York: Blaisdell Publishing Co. Reviews: Amer. Math. Monthly 71.

Memberships

literature

Judy Green, Jeanne LaDuke: Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's. 2009, ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Huke Frink, Aline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Huke, Aline (maiden name); Frink, Aline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 2, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Torrington (Connecticut)
DATE OF DEATH	March 14, 2000
Place of death	Kennebunk (Maine)