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.

Biography

Friedrich Hermann Schottky was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). His father, Dr. Hermann Friedrich Schottky, was an English teacher and his mother, Louise Winkler, was a florist. He attended from 1860 to 1870, where his classmates included , , and Eberhard Gothein. From 1870 to 1874 he attended the University of Breslau.

Schottky was a lecturer at the University of Breslau from 1878 to 1882, a professor at the University of Zurich from 1882 to 1892, and a professor at Philipps University of Marburg from 1892 to 1902. In 1902, through his friendship with Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Schottky was able to obtain a professorship at Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin where he would remain until his retirement in 1922.

Schottky was elected to the Berlin Academy of Sciences in 1903.

Schottky died in Berlin in 1935. but remains an area of active research.

In complex analysis, Schottky's theorem shows the existence of a bound on the value a holomorphic function can take on the unit disk.

Publications Schottky authored 55 papers and one book.

Papers

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