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Georg Hamel
circa 1950. TU Berlin
Born12 September 1877
Died4 October 1954 (1954-10-05) (aged 77)
Known forJeffery–Hamel flow
Hamel basis
Scientific career
InstitutionsTechnical University of Berlin
Thesis On the geometries in which the degrees are the shortest  (1901)
Doctoral advisorDavid Hilbert
Doctoral studentsMichael Sadowsky
Wilhelm Cauer
Richard von Mises

Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel (12 September 1877 – 4 October 1954) was a German mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory.[1]

Biography[edit]

Hamel was born in Düren, Rhenish Prussia. He studied at Aachen, Berlin, Göttingen, and Karlsruhe. His doctoral adviser was David Hilbert.[2] He taught at Brünn in 1905, Aachen in 1912, and at the Technical University of Berlin in 1919. In 1927, Hamel studied the size of the key space for the Kryha encryption device. He was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1932 at Zurich and in 1936 at Oslo.[3] He was the author of several important treatises on mechanics. He became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1938[4] and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1953.[5] He died in Landshut, Bavaria.[1]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Über die Geometrieen, in denen die Geraden die Kürzesten sind, Göttigen: Dieterich'schen Universitäts-Buch-Druckerei, 1901 ("On the geometries in which the straight lines are the shortest", Hamel's doctoral dissertation on Hilbert's fourth problem. A version may be found in Mathematische Annalen 57, 1903.)
  • Lagrange-Euler'schen gleichungen der Mechanik, Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1903
  • Hamel, Georg (1905), "Eine Basis aller Zahlen und die unstetigen Lösungen der Funktionalgleichung f(x+y)=f(x)+f(y)", Mathematische Annalen, 60 (3), Leipzig: 459–462, doi:10.1007/BF01457624, S2CID 120063569
  • Elementare mechanik, Leipzig und Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1912
  • Grundbegriffe der Mechanik, Aus Natur und Geisteswelt,684. BDCHN., Leipzig, 1921{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Integralgleichungen, Berlin: Springer, 1937[6]
  • Komplexe Form der ebenen Bewegungsgleichungen zäher, inkompressibler Flüssigkeiten, Berlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften, in Kommission bei W. de Gruyter, 1941
  • Aufbau einer Theorie der Häute und der dünnen Schalen nach der Methode von Lagrange, Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften, in Kommission bei W. de Gruyter, 1944
  • Theoretische Mechanik, Berlin: Springer, 1949[7]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Georg Hamel", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  2. ^ Georg Hamel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Hamel, Georg. "Räumliche Strahlen mit konstanter Geschwindigkeit" (PDF). In: Comptes Rendus du Congrès International des Mathématiciens, Oslo, 1936. Vol. 2. pp. 261–262. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 December 2017. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  4. ^ "Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel (1877-1954)". Mathematician of the month (in German). Berliner Mathematische Gesellschaft e.V. November 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
  5. ^ "Deceased members: Dr. Georg Hamel". Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
  6. ^ Longley, W. R. (1938), "Review of Integralgleichungen by G. Hamel" (PDF), Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 44 (5): 315–316, doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1938-06726-2
  7. ^ Prager, W. (1951), "Review of Theoretische Mechanik by G. Hamel" (PDF), Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 57 (2): 159–160, doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1951-09492-6


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