Friedrich Schottky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Friedrich Schottky

German mathematician

Date of Birth: 24-Jul-1851

Place of Birth: Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 12-Aug-1935

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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 Wroclaw, Poland) and died in Berlin. He is also the father of Walter H.
Schottky, the German physicist and inventor of a variety of semiconductor concepts.