Name Georg Hamel | Role Mathematician | |
Doctoral students Michael SadowskyWilhelm CauerRichard von Mises Books Elementare Mechanik: ein Lehrbuch Education Humboldt University of Berlin, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Similar People David Hilbert, Richard von Mises, Wilhelm Cauer | ||
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.
Hamel was born in Duren, Rhenish Prussia. He studied at Aachen, Berlin, Gottingen, and Karlsruhe. His adviser of doctoral study was David Hilbert. He taught at Brunn 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 became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1938 and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1953. He died in Landshut, Bavaria.
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