Nathan Fine, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American mathematician
Date of Birth: 22-Oct-1916
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 18-Nov-1994
Profession: mathematician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Nathan Fine
- Nathan Jacob Fine (22 October 1916 in Philadelphia – 18 November 1994 in Deerfield Beach, Florida) was a mathematician who worked on basic hypergeometric series.
- He is best known for his lecture notes on the subject which for four decades served as an inspiration to experts in the field until they were finally published as a book.
- He solved the Jeep problem in 1946. Nathan Fine retired in 1978 as a professor at Pennsylvania State University.
- Prior to that he worked as a faculty at the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University.
- For a brief period (1946–1947) he also worked at the Operations Evaluation Group, affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Beside the book he published about 40 papers in several fields of mathematics.
- Nathan Fine received his Ph.D.
- in 1946 from University of Pennsylvania, where he was a student of Antoni Zygmund.
- Fine's doctoral students include J.
- J.
- Price. He wrote the book Basic Hypergeometric Series and Applications ISBN 0-8218-1524-5.
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