Thomas Scott Fiske (1865–January 10, 1944) was an American mathematician. He was born in

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and graduated in 1885 (

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, 1888) from

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

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of mathematics. In 1899 he was acting

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. He was president in 1902–04 of the

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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

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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)

References

External links

Thomas Fiske Collection
at the

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