Hecke

Erich Hecke

Born: 20 Sept 1887 in Buk, Posen, Germany (now Poznan, Poland)
Died: 13 Feb 1947 in Copenhagen, Denmark

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Hecke worked under Landau at Berlin and then Hilbert at Göttingen. He became an assistant to Hilbert and Klein. Hecke was professor at Basel, then Göttingen, then from 1919 he spent the rest of his career in Hamburg.

Hecke's best work is in analytic number theory where he continued work of Riemann, Dedekind and Heinrich Weber. He discovered the decomposition laws for the divisors of discriminants for class fields.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. H Petersson, Das wissenschaftliche Werk von E Hecke, Abhandlungen aus dem Mathematischen Seminar, Universität Hamburg 16 (1949), 7-31. 
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