Erich Hecke

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birth_date = birth date|1887|9|20
birth_place = Buk, Posen, Germany
death_date = death date and age|1947|2|13|1887|9|20
death_place = Copenhagen, Denmark
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fields = Mathematics
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alma_mater = University of Göttingen
doctoral_advisor = David Hilbert
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notable_students = Kurt Reidemeister
Heinrich Behnke
known_for = Hecke operator
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Erich Hecke (September 20, 1887 – February 13, 1947) was a German mathematician. He obtained his PhD in Göttingen under the supervision of David Hilbert. Kurt Reidemeister and Heinrich Behnke were among his students.

Hecke was born in Buk, Posen, Germany (now Poznań, Poland), and died in Copenhagen, Denmark. His early work included establishing the functional equation for the Dedekind zeta function, with a proof based on theta functions. The method extended to the L-functions associated to a class of characters now known as Hecke characters or idele class characters: such L-functions are now known as Hecke L-functions. He devoted most of his research to the theory of modular forms, creating the general theory of cusp forms (holomorphic, for "GL"(2)), as it is now understood in the classical setting.

ee also

* Hecke operator
* Tate's thesis

External links

*MathGenealogy |id=7379
*MacTutor Biography|id=Hecke