Ina Kersten

Short description: German mathematician

Ina Kersten at the memorial colloquium for Ernst Witt, Hamburg, 1991

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

1. ↑ Birth date from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2020-01-06
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 von Randow, Thomas (20 January 1995), "Ästhetik der Algebra" (in German), Die Zeit, https://www.zeit.de/1995/04/Aesthetik_der_Algebra
3. ↑ Ina Kersten at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. ↑ (in German) Habilitationen von Frauen, German Mathematical Society, https://www.mathematik.de/images/Presse/Presseinformationen/20000000_SN_TUC_HabilitationFrauen_2000.pdf, retrieved 2020-01-06
5. ↑ Abele, Andrea E.; Neunzert, Helmut; Tobies, Renate (2013) (in German), Traumjob Mathematik!: Berufswege von Frauen und Männern in der Mathematik, Springer-Verlag, p. 5, ISBN 978-3-0348-7963-7, https://books.google.com/books?id=29UkBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA5
6. ↑ Jackson, Allyn (October 2000), "The Slow Revolution of the Free Electronic Journal", Notices of the American Mathematical Society 47 (9): 1053–1059, https://www.ams.org/notices/200009/fea-eljnl.pdf

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