Hel Braun

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Helene "Hel" Braun (born June 3, 1914 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 15, 1986 in Bovenden , Göttingen district ) was a German mathematician specializing in number theory and modular forms .

Scientific career

Braun studied mathematics and actuarial mathematics at the University of Marburg from 1933 to 1937 and received his doctorate in 1937 under Carl Ludwig Siegel in Frankfurt with a thesis on the decomposition of square shapes into squares . She then worked as a scientific assistant at Siegel and completed her habilitation in 1940 with a thesis on the theory of Hermitian forms .

Braun received a lectureship at the University of Göttingen in 1941 and was appointed professor there in 1947 . In 1947/48 she was at Siegel's Institute for Advanced Study . Since 1951, when Siegel returned to Göttingen, Braun gave guest lectures at the University of Hamburg , where she worked with Emil Artin , among others , and was appointed adjunct professor at the Mathematical Seminar of the University of Hamburg in 1952. Since 1964 she was a scientific adviser and professor and in 1968 she followed Helmut Hasse to his chair . After her retirement in 1981 she lived in Hamburg and Göttingen. One of her students is Max Koecher , with whom she published on Jordan algebras, among other things .

In her autobiographical book The Beginning of a Scientific Career (Female) , Hel Braun describes the special situation of women in a male-dominated science in the so-called Third Reich .

Publications

A list of the publications by Hel Braun was published by Helmut Strade in the Mitteilungen der Mathematischen Gesellschaft in Hamburg , Volume XI, Issue 4, 1987.

  • Hel Braun, Max Koecher: Jordan Algebras. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 1966, ISBN 3-540-03522-2 .
  • Hel Braun: A woman and mathematics 1933–1940. The beginning of a scientific career. Edited by Max Koecher. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 1989, ISBN 3-540-52166-6 .

literature

  • H. Strade: Hel Braun 1914-1986 . Communications from the Mathematical Society in Hamburg, Volume 11, pp. 373–376, 1987.
  • Irene Pieper-Seier: Two successful women in mathematics: Ruth Moufang (1905-1977) and Hel Braun (1914-1986) . Communications from the Mathematical Society in Hamburg, Volume 16, pp. 25–38, 1997.

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personal data
SURNAME Braun, Hel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braun, Helene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1986
Place of death Bovenden