Friedrich Schottky

OccupationProfessor of mathematics (1882)Known forSchottky form
Schottky–Klein prime form
Schottky group
Schottky problem
Schottky theoremScientific careerFieldsMathematicsInstitutionsAcademic advisorsKarl Weierstrass
Hermann von HelmholtzNotable 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.

• Prime form
• Prym variety
• Walter H. Schottky

• Works by Friedrich Schottky at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Friedrich Schottky at the Internet Archive
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Friedrich Schottky", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
• Friedrich Schottky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project