Friedrich Schottky
Friedrich Schottky | |
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| Born | Friedrich Hermann Schottky 24 July 1851 |
| Died | 12 August 1935 (aged 84) |
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| Occupation | Professor of mathematics (1882-1922) |
| Known for | Schottky form Schottky–Klein prime form Schottky group Schottky problem Schottky theorem |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
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| Academic advisors | Karl Weierstrass Hermann von Helmholtz |
| Notable students | Heinrich Jung Ernst Cassirer Paul Koebe Konrad Knopp Walter Schnee Leon Lichtenstein Herman Müntz Robert Jentzsch Paul Bernays |
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Friedrich Hermann Schottky (24 July 1851 – 12 August 1935) was a German mathematician who worked on elliptic, abelian, and theta functions and introduced Schottky groups and Schottky's theorem.