Georg Hamel

Georg Hamel
Born	12 September 1877
Died	4 October 1954 (aged 77)
Institutions	Technical University of Berlin
Doctoral advisor	David Hilbert
Doctoral students	Michael 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]

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 became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1938 and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1953. He died in Landshut, Bavaria.

See also

• Hamel basis
• Cauchy's functional equation

References

1. 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