"The investigations of Siegel on discrete groups of motions of the with a fundamental region of finite volume ... make possible a simple characterization of groups conjugate to the modular group by a minimal condition."
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Hans Maass
(June 17, 1911 – April 15, 1992) was a German mathematician. He is known for , , and .
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