Mathematician:Kurt Wilhelm Sebastian Hensel

German mathematician best known for his introduction of $p$-adic numbers. Grandson of the pianist and composer Fanny Mendelssohn, and brother of the philosopher Paul Hensel.

Nationality
German

History

 * Born: 29 December 1861 in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia)
 * Died: 1 June 1941 in Marburg, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

 * Hensel's Lemma, also known as Hensel's Lifting Lemma

Books and Papers

 * 1899: Über eine neue Begründung der Theorie der algebraischen Zahlen
 * 1902: Theorie der algebraischen Funktionen einer Variabeln und ihre Anwendung auf algebraische Kurven und Abelsche Integrale (with Georg Landsberg
 * 1908: Theorie der algebraischen Zahlen
 * 1913: Zahlentheorie