scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1120163
This survey about life and work of A. Hurwitz is divided into the following parts: Youth and Study (1859-1881), Habilitation and Privatdozent in Göttingen (1881-1884), Extraordinarius in Königsberg (1884-1892), Ordinarius in Zürich (1892-1919). Already as a 17 years old pupil of the Realgymnasium in Hildesheim under C. H. Schubert he had published a paper on a problem of counting geometry (abzählende Geometrie). A survey is given of the Hurwitz' inaugural dissertation on elliptic modular functions in number theory, written by F. Klein in 1881. To Königsberg he was invited by Lindemann. Here he published a lot of papers, which are surveyed with publication data. In particular, a work of 1891 is emphasized, written on Riemann surfaces with given branch points in connection with algebraic equations and functions. In Zürich he based a happy family, at his home got together a little collective of chamber music, which included also A. Einstein. This period is characterized by several estimations. The mathematical works of A. Hurwitz are edited by \textit{G. Pólya} in two volumes in 1932-33 [see Zbl 0004.06404, Zbl 0007.19504 and Zbl 0122.24101 (reprint 1963)]. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0840.01058].
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