Schottky

Friedrich Hermann Schottky

Born: 24 July 1851 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland)
Died: 12 Aug 1935 in Berlin, Germany

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Friedrich Schottky studied at Berlin under Weierstrass and Helmholtz. His thesis is an important contribution to conformal mappings. He held chairs at Marburg University and Berlin University.

Most of Schottky's work concerns elliptic, abelian and theta functions, more in the spirit of Riemann's approach to function theory.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. L Bieberbach, Friedrich Schottky, Nachrichten von des Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (1935-36), 6-7. 
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