Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Schäfke (21 July 1922 in
Berlin
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,
Weimar Germany
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– 4 April 2010) was a German
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
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and
professor
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of
geometry
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.
Writings
* ''Mathieusche Funktionen und Sphäroidfunktionen mit Anwendungen auf physikalische und technische Probleme'', Springer 1954, with Josef Meixner
* ''Einführung in die Theorie der speziellen Funktionen der mathematischen Physik'', Springer 1963
* ''Differenzierbare Abbildungen'', Köln 1967, with Dietrich Krekel und Dieter Schmdit
* ''Quasimetrische Räume und quasinormierte Gruppen'', Birlinghoven St. Augustin 1971
* ''Gewöhnliche Differentialgleichungen. Die Grundlagen die Theorie im Reellen und Komplexen'', Springer 1973, , with Dieter Schmdit
* ''Integrale'', 1992, , with Dieter Hoffmann
References
Obituary
External links
*
ttp://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=21612 Friedrich Wilhelm Schäfke in the Mathematics Genealogy Project
20th-century German mathematicians
1922 births
2010 deaths
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