Robert Edwin Zink (died July 30, 2020 West Lafayette, Indiana) was Professor emeritus of Mathematics at Purdue University.
He was supervised by Bernard Russell Gelbaum and his dissertation was entitled Direct Unions of Measure Spaces.
[2] He ran unsuccessfully for an at-large seat on the West Lafayette City Council in 1971.
[1] He published 32 articles in refereed journals, supervised six doctoral students and earned the Murphy Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching award in 1995 and the Frederick L. Hovde Outstanding Faculty Fellow Award in 1985.
[1][3] Zink retired in 1998 but continued teaching for seven years without pay (one mathematics course and one in aviation technology).