Nathan Jacob Fine (22 October 1916 in Philadelphia – 18 November 1994 in Deerfield Beach, Florida) was an American mathematician who worked on basic hypergeometric series.
He is best known for his lecture notes on the subject which for four decades served as an inspiration to experts in the field until they were finally published as a book.
For a brief period (1946–1947) he also worked at the Operations Evaluation Group, affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[1] Nathan Fine received his Ph.D. in 1946 from University of Pennsylvania, where he was a student of Antoni Zygmund.
He wrote the book Basic Hypergeometric Series and Applications ISBN 0-8218-1524-5.