Mathematician:Nathan Jacob Fine

Mathematician

American mathematician who worked on basic hypergeometric series.

Best known for his lecture notes on the subject which were used as a standard, until they were finally published as a book.

Solved the jeep problem in $1946$.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 22 October 1916 in Philadelphia
• Died: 18 November 1994 in Deerfield Beach, Florida

Theorems and Definitions

• Fine's Equation

Publications

• 1947: Binomial Coefficients Modulo a Prime (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 54: pp. 589 – 592)  www.jstor.org/stable/2304500
• 1988: Basic Hypergeometric Series and Applications

Also known as

Known informally as Nat.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Nathan Jacob Fine": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• June 1995: George E. Andrews: Nathan Fine 1916–1994 (Not. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 42, no. 6: pp. 678 – 679)