Friedrich Emil Fritz Prym (28 September 1841,
Düren – 15 December 1915,
Bonn
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) was a German
mathematician
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History
On ...
who introduced
Prym varieties and
Prym differentials.
Prym completed his
Ph.D.
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at the
University of Berlin
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in 1863 with a thesis written under the direction of
Ernst Kummer
Ernst Eduard Kummer (29 January 1810 – 14 May 1893) was a German mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned ...
and
Martin Ohm. In 1867 he started a Professor at the
University of Würzburg
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, where he later became Dean, and then
Rector
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in 1897–98.
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Picture of Prym
19th-century German mathematicians
1841 births
1915 deaths
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
Algebraic geometers
University of Würzburg faculty
Complex analysts
20th-century German mathematicians
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