Adolf Hurwitz (1859 - 1919)

* 26 March 1859, † 18 November 1919

Adolf Hurwitz was born on 26 March 1859 in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany. Hurwitz studied the genus of the Riemann surface and worked on how class number relations could be derived from modular equations. Adolf Hurwitz died on 18 November 1919 in Zürich, Switzerland.