Robert Fricke
German mathematician
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| Intro | German mathematician | |
| Places | Germany | |
| was | Mathematician Professor Educator | |
| Work field | Academia Mathematics | |
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| Birth | 24 September 1861, Helmstedt, Germany | |
| Death | 18 July 1930Bad Harzburg, Germany (aged 68 years) | |
| Star sign | Libra |
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Karl Emanuel Robert Fricke (24 September 1861 – 18 July 1930) was a German mathematician, known for his work in complex analysis, especially on elliptic, modular and automorphic functions. He was one of the main collaborators of Felix Klein, with whom he produced two classic, two-volume monographs on elliptic modular functions and automorphic functions.
In 1893 in Chicago, his paper Die Theorie der automorphen Functionen und die Arithmetik was read (but not by Fricke) at the International Mathematical Congress held in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition. From 1894 to 1930 Fricke was professor of Higher Mathematics at the Technische Hochschule Carolo-Wilhelmina in Braunschweig.