Heinrich Maschke

Heinrich Maschke.

Heinrich Maschke (24 October 1853 in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) – 1 March 1908 Chicago, Illinois, USA) was a German mathematician who proved Maschke's theorem.

Maschke earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of Göttingen in 1880. He came to the United States in 1891, and took up an Assistant Professor position at the University of Chicago in 1892.

References

• Bolza, Oskar (1908), "Heinrich Maschke: His life and work.", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 15 (2): 85–95, doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1908-01708-7, ISSN 0002-9904
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Heinrich Maschke", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
• Heinrich Maschke at the Mathematics Genealogy Project