Max Koecher

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Max Koecher in Munich, 1967

Max Koecher (born 20 January 1924 in Weimar; died 7 February 1990 in Lengerich) was a German mathematician.

Koecher studied mathematics and physics at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen. In 1951, he received his doctorate under Max Deuring with his work (Koecher 1953) on Dirichlet series with functional equation where he introduced Koecher–Maass series. He qualified in 1954 at the Westfälische Wilhelms University in Münster. From 1962 to 1970, Koecher was department chair at the University of Munich. He retired in 1989.

His main research area was the theory of Jordan algebras, where he introduced the Kantor–Koecher–Tits construction and the Koecher–Vinberg theorem. He discovered the Koecher boundedness principle in the theory of Siegel modular forms.

References

Koecher, Max (1953), "Über Dirichlet-Reihen mit Funktionalgleichung", Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik 192: 1–23, ISSN 0075-4102, MR 0057907
Krieg, A.; Petersson, H. P. (1993), "Max Koecher zum Gedächtnis", Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung 95 (1): 1–27, ISSN 0012-0456, MR 1203926
Petersson, Holger P. (1994), "Max Koecher's work on Jordan algebras", in Kaup, Wilhelm; McCrimmon, Kevin; Petersson, Holger P., Jordan algebras (Oberwolfach, 1992), Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 187–195, ISBN 978-3-11-014251-8, MR 1293319

External links

Max Koecher at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Max Koecher on Wikimedia Commons

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Name	Koecher, Max
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Short description	German mathematician
Date of birth	20 January 1924
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Date of death	7 February 1990
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