Thomas Fiske

American mathematician (1865–1944)

Thomas Fiske
Fiske between circa 1903 and circa 1904
Born	1865 (1865) New York City, New York, US
Died	January 10, 1944(1944-01-10) (aged 78–79)
Education	Columbia University (PhD)
Known for	Complex analysis
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Columbia University Barnard College American Mathematical Society (President 1903–04)

Thomas Scott Fiske (1865–January 10, 1944)^[1] was an American mathematician.^[1]

He was born in New York City and graduated in 1885 (Ph.D., 1888) from Columbia University,^[1] where he was a fellow, assistant, tutor, instructor, and adjunct professor until 1897, when he became professor of mathematics. In 1899 he was acting dean of Barnard College. He was president in 1902–04 of the American Mathematical Society, and he also edited the Bulletin (1891–99) and Transactions (1899–1905) of this society. In 1902 he became secretary of the College Entrance Examination Board. In 1905–06 he also served as president of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics of the Middle States and Maryland. Besides his mathematical papers, he was author of Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable (1906; fourth edition, 1907)

Writings

Functions of a complex variable (New York: J. Wiley, 1907)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Fite, W. Benjamin. "THOMAS SCOTT FISKE—IN MEMORIAM". Project Euclid. Retrieved 22 July 2017.

External links

Thomas Fiske Collection at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Thomas Fiske", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
Thomas Fiske at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

Presidents of the American Mathematical Society

1888–1900

John Howard Van Amringe (1888–1890)
Emory McClintock (1891–1894)
George William Hill (1895–1896)
Simon Newcomb (1897–1898)
Robert Simpson Woodward (1899–1900)

1901–1924

E. H. Moore (1901–1902)
Thomas Fiske (1903–1904)
William Fogg Osgood (1905–1906)
Henry Seely White (1907–1908)
Maxime Bôcher (1909–1910)
Henry Burchard Fine (1911–1912)
Edward Burr Van Vleck (1913–1914)
Ernest William Brown (1915–1916)
Leonard Eugene Dickson (1917–1918)
Frank Morley (1919–1920)
Gilbert Ames Bliss (1921–1922)
Oswald Veblen (1923–1924)

1925–1950

George David Birkhoff (1925–1926)
Virgil Snyder (1927–1928)
Earle Raymond Hedrick (1929–1930)
Luther P. Eisenhart (1931–1932)
Arthur Byron Coble (1933–1934)
Solomon Lefschetz (1935–1936)
Robert Lee Moore (1937–1938)
Griffith C. Evans (1939–1940)
Marston Morse (1941–1942)
Marshall H. Stone (1943–1944)
Theophil Henry Hildebrandt (1945–1946)
Einar Hille (1947–1948)
Joseph L. Walsh (1949–1950)

1951–1974

John von Neumann (1951–1952)
Gordon Thomas Whyburn (1953–1954)
Raymond Louis Wilder (1955–1956)
Richard Brauer (1957–1958)
Edward J. McShane (1959–1960)
Deane Montgomery (1961–1962)
Joseph L. Doob (1963–1964)
Abraham Adrian Albert (1965–1966)
Charles B. Morrey Jr. (1967–1968)
Oscar Zariski (1969–1970)
Nathan Jacobson (1971–1972)
Saunders Mac Lane (1973–1974)

1975–2000

Lipman Bers (1975–1976)
R. H. Bing (1977–1978)
Peter Lax (1979–1980)
Andrew M. Gleason (1981–1982)
Julia Robinson (1983–1984)
Irving Kaplansky (1985–1986)
George Mostow (1987–1988)
William Browder (1989–1990)
Michael Artin (1991–1992)
Ronald Graham (1993–1994)
Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1995–1996)
Arthur Jaffe (1997–1998)
Felix Browder (1999–2000)

2001–2024

Hyman Bass (2001–2002)
David Eisenbud (2003–2004)
James Arthur (2005–2006)
James Glimm (2007–2008)
George Andrews (2009–2010)
Eric Friedlander (2011–2012)
David Vogan (2013–2014)
Robert Bryant (2015–2016)
Ken Ribet (2017–2018)
Jill Pipher (2019–2020)
Ruth Charney (2021–2022)
Bryna Kra (2023–2024)

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