Karl Emanuel Robert Fricke (24 September 1861 – 18 July 1930) was a German
mathematician
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, known for his work in
complex analysis
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, especially on
elliptic,
modular and
automorphic functions. He was one of the main collaborators of
Felix Klein
Felix Christian Klein (; ; 25 April 1849 – 22 June 1925) was a German mathematician and Mathematics education, mathematics educator, known for his work in group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and the associations betwe ...
, 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
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. From 1894 to 1930 Fricke was professor of Higher Mathematics at the
Technische Hochschule Carolo-Wilhelmina in
Braunschweig
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.
Personal life
On 4 August 1894, Fricke married Eleonore Flender (1873-1912), daughter of Hermann August Flender and Aline Flender (
née
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Klein) in
Düsseldorf
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. She was a niece of
Felix Klein
Felix Christian Klein (; ; 25 April 1849 – 22 June 1925) was a German mathematician and Mathematics education, mathematics educator, known for his work in group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and the associations betwe ...
with whom he worked. They had two children;
* Gertrud Fricke (1895-1975)
* Paul Fricke (1896-1961)
His wife died in 1912 aged 49. On 7 March 1925, aged 64, he remarried to Emilie Anna Elise colloquially known as Emmy (1877-1952). She was the seventh of nine children of
Alfred Lämmerhirt. They had no children.
Fricke died on 18 July 1930 in
Bad Harzburg
Bad Harzburg (; Eastphalian dialect, Eastphalian: ''Bad Harzborch'') is a spa town in central Germany, in the Goslar (district), Goslar district of Lower Saxony. It lies on the northern edge of the Harz mountains and is a recognised saltwater spa ...
aged 68.
See also
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Fricke involution
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1861 births
1930 deaths
People from Helmstedt
19th-century German mathematicians
20th-century German mathematicians
German mathematical analysts
Group theorists
People from the Duchy of Brunswick
Academic staff of TU Braunschweig
Mathematicians from the German Empire
Leipzig University alumni
Presidents of the German Mathematical Society
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