Friedrich Schottky

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. Schottky was a professor at the University of Zurich from 1882–1892.

Friedrich Schottky
Born	Friedrich Hermann Schottky (1851-07-24)24 July 1851 Breslau, Silesia Province, Kingdom of Prussia
Died	12 August 1935(1935-08-12) (aged 84) Berlin, Free State of Prussia, Nazi Germany
Alma mater	University of Breslau (1870–1874) Frederick William University of Berlin (–1875, Doctoral dissertation)
Occupation	Professor of mathematics (1882)
Known for	Schottky form Schottky–Klein prime form Schottky group Schottky problem Schottky theorem
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Breslau (1878–1882) Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (1882–1892) Philipps-Universität Marburg (1892–1902) Frederick William University of Berlin (1902–1922)
Academic advisors	Karl Weierstrass Hermann von Helmholtz
Notable students	Heinrich Jung Paul Koebe Konrad Knopp Walter Schnee Leon Lichtenstein
Signature

He is also the father of Walter H. Schottky, the German physicist and inventor of a variety of semiconductor concepts.

See also

• Prime form
• Prym variety
• Walter H. Schottky

External links

• Works by Friedrich Schottky at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Friedrich Schottky at the Internet Archive
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Friedrich Schottky", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
• Friedrich Schottky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project