Fine was Woodrow Wilson’s best friend, a mathematician and a former dean of science at Princeton in the early 20th century who helped to recruit top-tier mathematicians and scientists for the university, transforming it into a research powerhouse. Fine Hall, the math building in which John Nash spent most of his time as a graduate student (and later, as the “Phantom of Fine Hall”), was named for Henry Burchard Fine.
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Chapter 3 – The Center of the Universe
...reputation. In the early 1900s, when Woodrow Wilson was its president, Wilson’s best friend, mathematician Henry Burchard Fine —Fine Hall’s namesake—convinced him to hire scientists in order to diversify the university faculty.
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