Erich Hecke

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Erich Hecke
File:Erich Hecke.jpg Photo courtesy of MFO
Born	(1887-09-20)20 September 1887 Buk, Province of Posen, German Empire
Died	Copenhagen, Denmark
Fields	Mathematics
Alma mater	University of Göttingen
Doctoral advisor	David Hilbert
Notable students	Kurt Reidemeister Heinrich Behnke Hans Petersson
Known for	Hecke operator

Erich Hecke (20 September 1887 – 13 February 1947) was a German mathematician. He obtained his doctorate 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.

In 1933 Hecke signed the Loyalty Oath of German Professors to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist State.

See also

• List of things named after Erich Hecke
• Tate's thesis

External links

• Erich Hecke at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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