{{Short description|American mathematician and academic (1904–2000)}} {{Infobox person | name = Aline Huke Frink | image = AlineHuke1924.png | alt = | caption = Aline Huke, from the 1924 Mount Holyoke College yearbook | other_names = | birth_name = | birth_date = March 2, 1904 | birth_place = Torrington, Connecticut | death_date = March 14, 2000 | death_place = Kennebunkport, Maine | occupation = Mathematician | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | spouse = Orrin Frink | relatives = }}
'''Aline Huke Frink''' (March 2, 1904 – March 14, 2000) was an American mathematician, and a professor on the faculty of the Pennsylvania State University from 1930 to 1969.
== Early life and education == Aline Huke was born in Torrington, Connecticut<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ea9CC4lCicQC&q=Aline+Huke+Torrington&pg=PA838|title=American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory|date=1949|publisher=Bowker|pages=838|language=en}}</ref> and raised in Massachusetts, the daughter of Allen Johnson Huke and Mary Evelyn Feustel Huke. Her father was a businessman,<ref>{{Cite news|date=1956-10-05|title=Allen J. Huke|pages=10|work=Hartford Courant|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80207195/allen-j-huke/|access-date=2021-06-25|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and her mother was a schoolteacher.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last1=Green|first1=Judy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IRbOAwAAQBAJ&q=Aline+Huke&pg=PA177|title=Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's|last2=LaDuke|first2=Jeanne|date=2009|publisher=American Mathematical Soc.|isbn=978-0-8218-4376-5|pages=177–178|language=en}}</ref>
Huke earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Mount Holyoke College in 1924.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2006-05-03|title=Math faculty couple's son creates Trustee Matching Scholarship in their honor|work=Penn State News|url=https://news.psu.edu/story/203625/2006/05/03/math-faculty-couples-son-creates-trustee-matching-scholarship-their-honor|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629081004/https://news.psu.edu/story/203625/2006/05/03/math-faculty-couples-son-creates-trustee-matching-scholarship-their-honor|archive-date=2021-06-29|url-status=dead}}</ref> She trained as a teacher at the New York State Teachers' College in Albany, and completed a master's degree and doctorate at the University of Chicago.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Duren|first=W. L.|date=1976|title=Graduate Student at Chicago in the Twenties|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2318211|journal=The American Mathematical Monthly|volume=83|issue=4|pages=248|doi=10.2307/2318211|jstor=2318211|issn=0002-9890}}</ref> Her doctoral advisor was Gilbert Ames Bliss, who oversaw her 1930 dissertation, "An Historical and Critical Study of the Fundamental Lemma in the Calculus of Variations".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Aline Huke|url=https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=6149|access-date=2021-06-24|website=The Mathematics Genealogy Project}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Huke|first=Aline|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ejrvAAAAMAAJ|title=An Historical and Critical Study of the Fundamental Lemma in the Calculus of Variations ...|date=1930|publisher=University of Chicago|language=en}}</ref> She also studied with David Widder at Bryn Mawr College.
== Career == Frink taught at a high school in Cobleskill, New York from 1924 to 1926. She taught mathematics at Mount Holyoke College from 1929 to 1930, and at the Pennsylvania State University, part time after she married and full-time after 1947, two years after her last child was born. She held the rank of assistant professor until 1952, associate professor until 1962, and became professor emeritus when she retired in 1969.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news|date=March 20, 1969|title=They Taught for 70 Yrs.|work=Bucks County Courier Times|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-mar-20-1969-2525185/|access-date=June 24, 2021|via=NewspaperArchive.com}}</ref>
In addition to her teaching, Frink translated a Russian-language mathematical text, ''Calculus of Variations'' by Naum Akhiezer, published in 1962.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news|date=August 12, 1960|title=Frink to Accompany Husband to Ireland|page=5|work=Daily Collegian|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-aug-12-1960-2525233/|access-date=June 24, 2021|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Her mathematical research was published in ''Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.''<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Frink|first1=Aline H.|last2=Frink|first2=Orrin|date=August 1938|title=Polygonal Variations|doi=10.1090/S0002-9904-1938-06800-0|journal=Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society|volume=44|issue=8|pages=538–547|doi-access=free}}</ref> She was a charter member of the Women's Scientific Club at Penn State, along with Pauline Gracia Beery Mack, Mary Louisa Willard, and Teresa Cohen; the club became a chapter of Sigma Delta Epsilon (now Graduate Women in Science).<ref>{{Cite news|date=January 24, 1936|title=Local Scientific Club Joins National Group|page=1|work=Penn State Collegian|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-jan-24-1936-2525205/|access-date=June 24, 2021|via=NewspaperArchive.com}}</ref>
== Personal life == Aline Huke married fellow mathematician Orrin Frink in 1931. They had four children together. She was widowed when Orrin Frink died in 1988,<ref>{{Cite news|date=1988-03-17|title=Orrin Frink, Mathematician, 86|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/17/obituaries/orrin-frink-mathematician-86.html|access-date=2021-06-25|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and she died in 2000, in Kennebunkport, Maine, aged 96 years.<ref name=":0" /> Since 2006, there has been an endowed scholarship in Penn State's mathematics department, named for Aline Huke Frink and Orrin Frink.<ref>{{Cite web|date=May 3, 2006|title=Math faculty couple's son creates Trustee Matching Scholarship in their honor|url=https://news.psu.edu/story/203625/2006/05/03/math-faculty-couples-son-creates-trustee-matching-scholarship-their-honor|access-date=2021-06-24|website=Penn State News|language=en}}{{Dead link|date=February 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>
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