Friedrich Schottky

Friedrich Schottky
Born
Friedrich Hermann Schottky

(1851-07-24)24 July 1851
Died12 August 1935(1935-08-12) (aged 84)
Alma mater
OccupationProfessor of mathematics (1882)
Known forSchottky form
Schottky–Klein prime form
Schottky group
Schottky problem
Schottky theorem
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions
Academic advisorsKarl Weierstrass
Hermann von Helmholtz
Notable studentsHeinrich Jung
Paul Koebe
Konrad Knopp
Walter Schnee
Leon Lichtenstein
Signature

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.

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