Thomas Fiske

Thomas Scott Fiske (1903/04)

Thomas Scott Fiske (born May 12, 1865 in New York City , † January 10, 1944 in Poughkeepsie ) was an American mathematician.

Life

Fiske attended Columbia College (later Columbia University ) with a bachelor's degree in 1885 and an MA in 1886. He spent a year in Cambridge (with Andrew Russell Forsyth and Arthur Cayley, among others ) before he received his doctorate in 1888 at Columbia College (theory of concomitants of algebraic form). He then was a tutor at Columbia College, where he was given a full professorship in 1897 and remained there until his retirement in 1936.

In 1888 he founded the American Mathematical Society , was its secretary until 1895, vice-president from 1898 to 1901 and its president from 1903 to 1904. From 1891 to 1899 he was the editor of their Bulletin and then until 1905 their Transactions. As a research mathematician, he published only a few papers on elliptic integrals and surface integrals.

Fonts

Functions of a Complex Variable, Wiley 1896

Web links

Commons : Thomas Scott Fiske - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Fiske, AMS
John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Thomas Fiske. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b W. Benjamin Fite: Thomas Scott Fiske — In memoriam . In: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society . tape 50 , no. 5 , May 1944, ISSN 0002-9904 , pp. 283–283 ( projecteuclid.org [accessed February 1, 2019]).

personal data
SURNAME	Fiske, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fiske, Thomas Scott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	May 12, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City
DATE OF DEATH	January 10, 1944
Place of death	Poughkeepsie

[:0-1] A ^b W. Benjamin Fite: Thomas Scott Fiske — In memoriam . In: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society . tape 50 , no. 5 , May 1944, ISSN 0002-9904 , pp. 283–283 ( projecteuclid.org [accessed February 1, 2019]).