Kurt Wilhelm Sebastian Hensel (29 December 1861 – 1 June 1941) was a German mathematician born in Königsberg, Prussia.
He was the son of the landowner and entrepreneur Sebastian Hensel, brother of the philosopher Paul Hensel , grandson of the composer Fanny Mendelssohn and the painter Wilhelm Hensel, and a descendant of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.
He studied mathematics in Berlin and Bonn, under mathematicians like Leopold Kronecker and Karl Weierstrass.
Later in his life he was a professor at the University of Marburg until 1930. He was also an editor of the mathematical Crelle's Journal.
He is well known for his introduction of p-adic numbers, which he invented in 1902, and itself became increasingly important in number theory and other fields during the twentieth century.[1]
See also
- Hensel's lemma, named after him
External links
- Kurt Hensel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Kurt Hensel", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hensel.html.
References
- ^ Rosen, Kenneth (2005). "4". in Emily Portwood and Mary Reynolds (in English). Elementary Number Theory: and Its Applications (fifth ed.). Boston: PEARSON Addison Westley. p. 170. ISBN 0321237072.
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