Hasse

Helmut Hasse

Born: 25 Aug 1898 in Kassel, Germany
Died: 26 Dec 1979 in Ahrensburg (near Hamburg), Germany

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Hasse is best remembered for the Hasse Principle (1923) which shows that a polynomial equation over the rationals has a solution if and only if it has a solution mod p for every prime p. Hasse extended Heinrich Weber's work on class field theory in important papers in 1926.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. G Frei, Helmut Hasse (1898-1979), Expositiones Mathematicae 3 (1985), 55-69.
  3. S L Segal, Helmut Hasse in 1934, Historia Mathematica 7 (1980), 46-56. 
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