Thomas Scott Fiske was an American

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 mathematician. He was born in New York City

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  and graduated in 1885 (Ph.D.

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, 1888) from Columbia University

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, where he was a fellow, assistant, tutor, instructor, and adjunct professor until 1897, when he became professor

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 of mathematics. In 1899 he was acting dean

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 of Barnard College

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. He was president in 1902–04 of the American Mathematical Society

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, 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

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. 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)

Obituary

• W. Benjamin Fite Thomas Scott Fiske—In memoriam Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50, 283, (1944).

External links

• Thomas Fiske Collection at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
  University of Texas at Austin
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