Otto Hesse

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Otto Hesse
Born (1811-04-22)22 April 1811
Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia
Died 4 August 1874(1874-08-04) (aged 63)
Munich, Bavaria
Residence Prussia
Nationality German
Fields Mathematician
Institutions Polytechnic School
Alma mater Königsberg University
Doctoral advisor Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Doctoral students Olaus Henrici, Gustav Kirchhoff, Jacob Lüroth, Adolph Mayer, Max Noether, and Ernst Schröder
Known for Hessian matrix
Hesse normal form
Hesse configuration
Hessian group
Hessian pairs
Hesse's theorem
Hesse pencil

Ludwig Otto Hesse (22 April 1811 4 August 1874) was a German mathematician. Hesse was born in Königsberg, Prussia, and died in Munich, Bavaria. He worked on algebraic invariants. The Hessian matrix, the Hesse normal form, the Hesse configuration, the Hessian group, Hessian pairs, Hesse's theorem, and the Hesse pencil are named after him.

Life

Hesse was born in Königsberg (today Kaliningrad) as the son of Johann Gottlieb Hesse, a businessman and brewery owner and his wife Anna Karoline Reiter (1788–1865). He studied in his hometown at the Albertina under Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi. Among his teachers we count Bessel, Neumann, and Richelot. He earned his doctorate in 1840 at the University of Königsberg with the dissertation De octo punctis intersectionis trium superficium secundi ordinis. In 1841, Hesse completed his habilitation thesis. In the same year he married Sophie Marie Emilie Dulk, the daughter of pharmacists and chemistry professor Friedrich Philipp Dulk (1788–1852). The couple had a son and 5 daughters. Hesse taught for some time physics and chemistry at the Vocational School in Königsberg and lectured at the Albertina. In 1845 he was appointed associate professor in Königsberg. In 1855 he moved to Halle and in 1856 to Heidelberg until 1868, when he finally moved to Munich to the there newly established Polytechnic School. In 1869 he joined the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. His doctoral students include Olaus Henrici, Gustav Kirchhoff, Jacob Lüroth, Adolph Mayer, Max Noether, and Ernst Schröder.

Works

His collected works were published in 1897 by Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

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