Nationality German Fields Mathematics Role Mathematician | Name Friedrich Schottky Known for Schottky problem | |
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Born Friedrich Hermann Schottky
24 July 1851
Breslau, Silesia Province ( 1851-07-24 ) Academic advisors Karl Weierstrass
Hermann von Helmholtz Died August 12, 1935, Berlin, Germany Education Humboldt University of Berlin Notable students Konrad Knopp, Paul Koebe, Leon Lichtenstein Academic advisor Karl Weierstrass, Hermann von Helmholtz Similar People Karl Weierstrass, Hermann von Helmholtz, Hermann Schwarz, Paul Koebe, Konrad Knopp | ||
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. He was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) and died in Berlin.
He is also the father of Walter H. Schottky, the German physicist and inventor of a variety of semiconductor concepts.
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