Topic #13 ---------------- OP-SF NET ----------------- July 13, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~ From: OP-SF Net EditorSubject: Obituary about Nathan Fine in Notices AMS The Notices of the AMS, June 1995 contains at p.678 an obituary by George Andrews about Nathan Fine, 1916-1994. I quote from his article: I first met Nat in 1961 when I began graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1962 I took his course "Basic Hypergeometric Functions" under the mistaken asumption thet "basic' meant "elementary". This was perhaps the most fortunate mistake I ever made. Twenty-six years later, I wrote the foreword to his book "Basic Hypergeometric Series and Applications". The reference for this book is: N.J. Fine, Basic hypergeometric series and applications, Mathematical Surveys and Monographs 27, Amer. Math. Soc., 1988.