Otto Hesse | |
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| Born | (1811-04-22)22 April 1811 |
| Died | 4 August 1874(1874-08-04) (aged 63) |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | Königsberg University |
| Known for | Hessian curve Hessian matrix Hesse normal form Hesse configuration Hessian group Hessian pairs Hesse's theorem Hesse pencil Hesse's principle of transfer |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | Polytechnic School |
| Thesis | De octo punctis intersectionis trium superficium secundi ordinis[1] (1840) |
| Doctoral advisor | Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi |
| Doctoral students | Carl Neumann,Olaus Henrici,Gustav Kirchhoff,Jacob Lüroth,Adolph Mayer,Max Noether, andErnst Schröder |
Ludwig Otto Hesse (22 April 1811 – 4 August 1874) was a Germanmathematician. Hesse was born inKönigsberg,Prussia, and died inMunich,Bavaria. He worked mainly onalgebraic invariants, andgeometry. TheHessian matrix, theHesse normal form, theHesse configuration, theHessian group,Hessian pairs,Hesse's theorem,Hesse pencil, and theHesse transfer principle[2] are named after him. Many of Hesse's research findings were presented for the first time inCrelle's Journal or Hesse's textbooks.[3]
Hesse was born in Königsberg (todayKaliningrad) as the son of Johann Gottlieb Hesse, a businessman and brewery owner and his wife Anna Karoline Reiter (1788–1865). He studied in his hometown at theAlbertina underCarl Gustav Jacob Jacobi. Among his teachers were countFriedrich Wilhelm Bessel andFriedrich Julius Richelot. He earned his doctorate in 1840 at theUniversity of Königsberg with the dissertationDe octo punctis intersectionis trium superficium secundi ordinis. In 1841, Hesse completed hishabilitation thesis. In the same year he married Sophie Marie Emilie Dulk, the daughter of pharmacists and chemistry professorFriedrich Philipp Dulk (1788–1852). The couple had a son and five daughters. Hesse taught for some time physics and chemistry at the Vocational School in Königsberg and lectured at the Albertina. In 1845 he was appointed associate professor in Königsberg. In 1855 he moved to Halle and in 1856 to Heidelberg until 1868, when he finally moved toMunich to the newly establishedPolytechnic School. In 1869 he joined theBavarian Academy of Sciences.
His doctoral students includeOlaus Henrici,Gustav Kirchhoff,Jacob Lüroth,Adolph Mayer,Carl Neumann,Max Noether,Ernst Schröder, andHeinrich Martin Weber.[1]
His collected works were published in 1897 byBavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
