Background
He was born in New York City and graduated in 1885 (Doctor of Philosophy, 1888) from Columbia University, where he was a fellow, assistant, tutor, instructor, and adjunct professor until 1897, when he became professor of mathematics.
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AUTHOR'S PREFACE. IN the following pages is contained a brief introductory account of some of the more fundamental portions of the theory of functions of a complex variable. The work was prepared originally as a chapter for the volume called "Higher Mathematics," published in 1896. It has been enlarged by the addition of sections on power series, algebraic functions and their integrals, functions of two or more independent variables, and differential equations. Furthermore, the section on uniform convergence has been extended, and the treatment of Weierstrass's theorem and of Mittag-Leffler's theorem has been simplified. It is hoped that the present work will give the uninitiated some idea of the nature of one of the most important branches of modern mathematics, and will also be useful as an introduction to larger works, such as those in English by Forsyth, Whittaker, and Harkness and Morley; in French by Jordan, Picard, Goursat, and Valleé-Poussin; and in German by Burkhardt, Stolz and Gmeiner, and Osgood.
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He was born in New York City and graduated in 1885 (Doctor of Philosophy, 1888) from Columbia University, where he was a fellow, assistant, tutor, instructor, and adjunct professor until 1897, when he became professor of mathematics.
Columbia University.
In 1899 he was acting dean of Barnard College. He was president in 1902-1904 of the American Mathematical Society, and he also edited the Bulletin (1891-1899) and Transactions (1899–1905) of this society. In 1902 he became secretary of the College Entrance Examination Board.
Besides his mathematical papers, he was author of Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable (1906.
Fourth edition, 1907) West. Benjamin Fite Thomas Scott Fiske—In memoriam Bulletin. America Mathematics Society 50, 283, (1944).
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, Doctorate. C. Thurston, H. T. Colby, F. M., eds. (1905).
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New International Encyclopedia (1st ed). New York: Dodd, Mead.
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