Nationality German Role Mathematician | Name Friedrich Schottky | |
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Born Friedrich Hermann Schottky24 July 1851Breslau, Silesia Province ( 1851-07-24 ) Academic advisors Karl WeierstrassHermann 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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