Ina Kersten (born 1946)[1] is a German mathematician and former president of the German Mathematical Society. Her research concerns abstract algebra including the theory of field extensions and algebraic groups.[2] She is a professor emerita at the University of Göttingen.
Kersten was born in Hamburg,[2] and earned her Ph.D. at the University of Hamburg in 1977. Her dissertation, p-Algebren über semilokalen Ringen, was supervised by Ernst Witt.[3] She completed a habilitation at the University of Regensburg in 1983.[4]
Kersten was president of the German Mathematical Society from 1995 to 1997,[2] which meant she was the first woman to head the society.[5] Under her leadership, the society founded the journal Documenta Mathematica.[6]
References edit
- ^ Birth date from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2020-01-06
- ^ a b c von Randow, Thomas (20 January 1995), "Ästhetik der Algebra", Die Zeit (in German)
- ^ Ina Kersten at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Habilitationen von Frauen (PDF) (in German), German Mathematical Society, retrieved 2020-01-06
- ^ Abele, Andrea E.; Neunzert, Helmut; Tobies, Renate (2013), Traumjob Mathematik!: Berufswege von Frauen und Männern in der Mathematik (in German), Springer-Verlag, p. 5, ISBN 978-3-0348-7963-7
- ^ Jackson, Allyn (October 2000), "The Slow Revolution of the Free Electronic Journal" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 47 (9): 1053–1059