Orrin Frink, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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mathematician
Date of Birth: 31-May-1901
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Date of Death: 04-Mar-1988
Profession: mathematician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Orrin Frink
- Orrin Frink Jr.
- (31 May 1901 – 4 March 1988) was an American mathematician who introduced Frink ideals in 1954. Frink earned a doctorate from Columbia University in 1926 or 1927 and worked on the faculty of Pennsylvania State University for 41 years, 11 of them as department chair.
- His time at Penn State was interrupted by service as assistant chief engineer at the Special Projects Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base during World War II, and by two Fulbright fellowships to Dublin, Ireland in the 1960s.Aline Huke Frink, his wife, was also a mathematician at Penn State.
- Their son, also named Orrin Frink, became a professor of Slavic languages at Ohio University and Iowa State University.
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