Hans Maass (german: Hans Maaß; June 17, 1911,

Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

– April 15, 1992) was a German mathematician who introduced Maass wave forms and

Koecher–Maass series In mathematics, a Koecher–Maass series is a type of Dirichlet series that can be expressed as a Mellin transform of a Siegel modular form, generalizing Hecke's method of associating a Dirichlet series to a modular form In mathematics, a modular ...

and

Maass–Selberg relations In mathematics, the Maass–Selberg relations are some relations describing the inner products of truncated real analytic Eisenstein series, that in some sense say that distinct Eisenstein series are orthogonal. Hans Maass introduced the Maass� ...

and who proved most of the Saito–Kurokawa conjecture. Maass was a student of

Erich Hecke Erich Hecke (20 September 1887 – 13 February 1947) was a German mathematician known for his work in number theory and the theory of modular forms. Biography Hecke was born in Buk, Province of Posen, German Empire (now Poznań, Poland). He ...

Publications

* * Maass, H. (1949), "Automorphe Funktionen von mehreren Veranderlichen und Dirichletsche Reihen", Abh. Math. Sem. U. Hamburg 16:72–100. * * * *

References

* 20th-century German mathematicians 1911 births 1992 deaths National Socialist Motor Corps members {{Germany-mathematician-stub