Friedrich Schottky

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Friedrich Schottky

Friedrich Schottky (born July 24, 1851 in Breslau , † August 12, 1935 in Berlin ) was a German mathematician .

Life

Father Dr. Hermann Friedrich Schottky was a "teacher of English". Son Friedrich attended the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau from 1860 . He as well as Max Grube , Heinrich Rosin , Eberhard Gothein and others had founded the literary association "Concordia" at the Magdalenäum. The magazine they worked on had the programmatic title: "Education of the youth through oneself". After graduating from high school, Schottky studied mathematics at the University of Breslau from 1870 to 1874 . Then he went to the professors Karl Weierstraß and Hermann von Helmholtz at the Berlin Humboldt University , where he received his doctorate in 1875. His work with the title “About the conformal mapping of multiple contiguous flat surfaces” is recognized as a historical dissertation . In 1878 Schottky completed his habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Breslau. One of the disputants was Eberhard Gothein.

Schottky taught from 1878 to 1882 as a lecturer at the University of Breslau. In 1882 he was appointed professor for higher mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich . He stayed here for ten years. In 1892 he accepted the call as professor at the Philipps University in Marburg . After another ten years he returned to Berlin in 1902, where he worked as a respected mathematician until his retirement in 1922. Since 1900 Schottky was a corresponding and since 1902 a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. In 1911 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . His students included Heinrich Wilhelm Ewald Jung , Paul Koebe , Leon Lichtenstein , Chaim Müntz , Robert Jentzsch and Konrad Knopp .

Schottky died at the age of 84. The funeral in Berlin-Steglitz took place in close family circles. He had a daughter and four sons, including the physicist Walter Schottky (1886–1976).

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The main focuses of his work are the elliptical functions, Abelian functions and the theta functions . He published 55 papers and the book "Outline of a theory of the Abelian functions of three variables". Schottky made significant contributions to function theory and questions of conformal mapping. Mathematicians call his generalization of the theorems of Charles Emile Picard and Edmund Landau the "Schottky Theorem".

The Schottky problem of the characterization of the Jacobi varieties among the Abelian varieties is named after him. It was solved by Takahiro Shiota in 1986, but is still the subject of research.

Works

literature

  • Commemorative letter on the occasion of the establishment of d. St. Maria Magdalena high school in Breslau 700 years ago , Frankfurt 1967
  • Friedrich Schottky , Vita for the dissertation, Berlin 1875

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 217.
  2. ↑ Friedrich Schottky in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / name used
  3. ↑ z. B. Eberhard Freitag, Das Schottky-Problem , Marburg 2006 ( Memento from May 3, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 111 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Schottky, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1935
Place of death Berlin