Kurt Hensel
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Kurt Wilhelm Sebastian Hensel (December 29, 1861–June 1, 1941) was a German mathematician born in Königsberg, Prussia.
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]
[edit] See also
- Hensel's lemma, named after him
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[edit] References
- ^ Rosen, Kenneth (2005). "4", in Emily Portwood and Mary Reynolds: Elementary Number Theory: and Its Applications, fifth (in English), Boston: PEARSON Addison Westley, 170. ISBN 0321237072.
