Background
Hecke was born in Buk, Posen, Germany (now Poznań, Poland), and died in Copenhagen, Denmark.
mathematician university professor
Hecke was born in Buk, Posen, Germany (now Poznań, Poland), and died in Copenhagen, Denmark.
He obtained his doctorate in Göttingen under the supervision of David Hilbert. Kurt Reidemeister and Heinrich Behnke were among his students. His early work included establishing the functional equation for the Dedekind zeta function, with a proof based on theta functions.
The method extended to the L-functions associated to a class of characters now known as Hecke characters or idele class characters.
Such L-functions are now known as Hecke L-functions. He devoted most of his research to the theory of modular forms, creating the general theory of cusp forms (holomorphic, for GL(2)), as it is now understood in the classical setting.
In 1933 Hecke signed the Loyalty Oath of German Professors to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist State.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.