Friedrich Prym
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Friedrich Emil Fritz Prym (28 September 1841, Düren – 15 December 1915, Bonn) was a German mathematician who introduced Prym varieties and Prym differentials.
Prym completed his Ph.D. at the University of Berlin in 1863 with a thesis written under the direction of Ernst Kummer and Martin Ohm. In 1867 he started a Professor at the University of Würzburg, where he later became Dean, and then Rector in 1897–98.
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- Krazer, Adolf (1917), "Friedrich Prym", Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung (in German): 1–25, ISSN 0012-0456