Heinrich Maschke (24 October 1853 in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) – 1 March 1908

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, USA) was a German mathematician who proved

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. Maschke earned his Ph.D. degree from the

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in 1880. He came to the

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in 1891, and took up an Assistant Professor position at the

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in 1892.

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