Kurt Hensel
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| Born | Kurt Wilhelm Sebastian Hensel 29 December 1861 |
| Died | 1 June 1941(aged 79) Marburg,Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Bonn University of Berlin |
| Known for | p-adic number,Hensel's lemma |
| Parent(s) | Sebastian Hensel Julia von Adelson |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Doctoral advisor | Leopold Kronecker |
| Doctoral students | Jessie Forbes Cameron,Abraham Fraenkel,Helmut Hasse,Reinhold Strassmann |
Kurt Wilhelm Sebastian Hensel(29 December 1861 – 1 June 1941) was a German mathematician born inKönigsberg.
Life and career
[edit]Hensel was born inKönigsberg,Province of Prussia(todayKaliningrad,Russia), the son of Julia (née von Adelson) and landowner and entrepreneurSebastian Hensel.He was the brother of philosopherPaul Hensel.Kurt and Paul's paternal grandparents were painterWilhelm Henseland composerFanny Mendelssohn.Fanny was the sister ofFelix Mendelssohn Bartholdy,daughter ofAbraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy,and granddaughter of philosopherMoses Mendelssohn,and entrepreneurDaniel Itzig.Both of Hensel's grandmothers and his mother were from Jewish families that had converted to Christianity.
Hensel studied mathematics inBerlinandBonn,under the mathematiciansLeopold KroneckerandKarl Weierstrass.
Later in his life Hensel was a professor at theUniversity of Marburguntil 1930. He was also an editor of the mathematicalCrelle's Journal.He edited the five-volume collected works of Leopold Kronecker.
Hensel is well known for his introduction ofp-adic numbers.First described by him in 1897,[1]they became increasingly important innumber theoryand other fields during the twentieth century.[2]
Publications
[edit]- Theorie der algebraischen Funktionen einer Variabeln und ihre Anwendung auf algebraische Kurven und Abelsche Integrale(zus. mitGeorg Landsberg) Teubner, Leipzig 1902
- Theorie der algebraischen ZahlenTeubner, Leipzig 1908[3]
- ZahlentheorieGöschen, Berlin 1913[4]
- Gedächtnisrede aufErnst Eduard Kummerzu dessen 100. Geburtstag[5]
- Über eine neue Begründung der Theorie der algebraischen Zahlen,Jahresbericht DMV, Band 6, 1899
References
[edit]- ^Hensel, Kurt (1897)."Über eine neue Begründung der Theorie der algebraischen Zahlen".Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung.6(3): 83–88.
- ^Rosen, Kenneth (2005). "4". In Emily Portwood and Mary Reynolds (ed.).Elementary Number Theory: and Its Applications(fifth ed.). Boston: PEARSON Addison Westley. p.170.ISBN0-321-23707-2.
- ^Dickson, L. E.(1910)."Hensel's Theory of Algebraic Numbers".Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.17(1): 23–36.doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1910-01993-5.
- ^Dickson, L. E. (1914)."Review: Kurt Hensel,Zahlentheorie".Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.20(5): 258–259.doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1914-02480-2.
- ^Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der mathematischen Wissenschaften mit Einschluss ihrer Anwendungen
External links
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- Kurt Henselat theMathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J.;Robertson, Edmund F.,"Kurt Hensel",MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive,University of St Andrews
- Works by Kurt HenselatProject Gutenberg
- Works by or about Kurt Henselat theInternet Archive
- Helmut Hasse:Kurt Hensel zum Gedächtnisin:Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik187(1949),S. 1-13
- Die Hensel-Familie im Stammbaum der Katzenelnbogen, der Mendelssohns und Bartholdys und ihre Abkömmlinge von 1729 bis ca. 1987
- Literature by and about Kurt Henselin theGerman National Librarycatalogue
