caption doctoral_advisor death_date death_place work_institution birth_place nationality field birth_date known_for residence article_title name alma_mater
karl emanuel robert fricke felix klein 18 july 1930 bad harzburg , germany universität -lrb- 1894 -- 1930 -rrb- kiel , georg-august-universität göttingen , technische hochschule braunschweig helmstedt , germany german mathematician 24 september 1861 complex analysis germany robert fricke
 robert fricke universität leipzig
robert fricke

karl emanuel robert fricke -lrb- born 24 september 1861 in helmstedt , germany ; died 18 july 1930 in bad harzburg , germany -rrb- was a german mathematician , known for his work in complex analysis , especially on elliptic , modular and automorphic functions .
he was one of the main collaborators of felix klein , with whom he produced two classic two volume monographs on elliptic modular functions and automorphic functions .
in 1983 in chicago , his paper `` die theorie der automorphen functionen und die arithmetik '' was read -lrb- but not by fricke -rrb- at the international mathematical congress held in connection with the world 's columbian exposition .
from 1894 to 1930 fricke was professor of higher mathematics at the technische hochschule carolo-wilhelmina in braunschweig .
