Kate fennel
Käte Fennel (born December 21, 1905 in Berlin as Käte Sperling ; † December 19, 1983 ) was a German mathematician who was best known for her work on non-Abelian finite groups .
life and work
Fennel learned to read and write earlier than most children and was awarded scholarships to attend private school. From 1924 to 1928 she studied mathematics , philosophy and physics at the University of Berlin and was able to pass the teacher examination in 1928. Because of her gender, she faced some discrimination when she tried to complete her degree in pure mathematics at the University of Berlin , and from 1931 to 1933 taught mathematics at a high school. When Adolf Hitler came to power, she lost her job as a Jew. She fled to Denmark with Werner Fenchel , a former fellow student, and they married in 1933. She worked for a Danish mathematics professor until 1943 when she had to flee to Sweden with her husband and 3-year-old son because Germany was occupying Denmark. They returned to Denmark after the end of the war and from 1965 to 1970 she worked part-time at Aarhus University in Denmark. She did not publish some essays on group theory until 1962 and 1978.
literature
- E. Høyrup: "Kate Fennel" in Women of Mathematics: A Bibliographic Sourcebook L. Grinstein, P. Cambpell, ed.s New York: Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 30-32
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fennel, Kate |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sparrow fennel, Kate |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1983 |