Mathematician:Kurt Wilhelm Sebastian Hensel

Mathematician

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
• Hensel's Lemma for Composite Numbers

Results named for Kurt Wilhelm Sebastian Hensel can be found here.

Publications

• 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

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Kurt Wilhelm Sebastian Hensel": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive