Erich Hecke
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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.
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- Erich Hecke at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Erich Hecke”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
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