Orrin Frink

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Orrin Frink (born May 31, 1901 in Brooklyn , New York , † March 4, 1988 in Kennebunkport , Maine ) was an American mathematician and university professor. In 1954, he defined the Frink ideal in mathematics as a certain kind of subset of a partially ordered set.

Life and research

Frink studied at Columbia University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1922 and his master's degree in 1923 . In 1926 he received his doctorate there with the dissertation: The Operations of Boolean Algebras . From 1925 to 1926 he was an instructor at Princeton University , until 1927 a scholarship from the National Research Council in Chicago and until 1928 at Princeton University. He was then assistant professor until 1929, adjunct professor until 1933 and until 1969 professor at the University of Pennsylvania . During the Second World War he was deputy chief engineer in the Special Projects Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base from 1944 to 1945 . From 1960 to 1961 and from 1965 to 1966 he was a Fulbright Lecturer in Dublin , Ireland . His Erdős number is 3.

In 1931 he married the mathematician Aline Huke Frink , with whom he had three children. After both retiring in 1969, they moved to Kennebunkport, Maine. 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

  • with Garrett Birkhoff : Representations of lattices by sets, Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 64: 299-316 (1948).
  • Representations of Boolean algebras, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. vol. 47 (1941) pp. 755-756.
  • Complemented modular lattices and projective spaces of infinite dimension, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. vol. 60 (1946) pp. 452-467.
  • Ideals in Partially Ordered Sets, 1954, American Mathematical Monthly. 61.

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 Frink, Orrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1988
Place of death Kennebunkport , Maine