Georg Hamel

Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel (born the September 12th 1877 with Düren; † October 4th 1954 with Landshut) is a German mathematician. He showed the existence of a base for the real vector spaces of unspecified size (possibly infinite).

Biography

Georg Hamel studied with the technical Université from Rhineland-Westphalia to Aachen, the Université Humboldt of Berlin and with the Université of Göttingen, where it passed its thesis of doctorate, entitled “On the geometries where the geodetic ones are lines” ( Über die Geometrien, in denen die Geraden die Kürzesten sind ) in 1901 pennies the direction of David Hilbert. It supported its thesis of enabling to the Université of Karlsruhe in 1903. He was full professor of the Institute of technology of Brünn in 1905, of the technical Université from Rhineland-Westphalia to Aachen in 1912 and of the technical Université of Berlin in 1919. Elected official member of the Academy of Berlin in 1938, it especially attacked the Problem of the bases of mathematics, in particular showing the Théorème of the incomplete base (known in German under the name of “Hamelbasis”). He also proposed an axiomatic construction of the Mechanic which plays today a big role in mechanical Engineering. He appraised for the government the cryptographic machine Kryha.

As a Professor emeritus, Georg Hamel became in 1953 memebre correspondent of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

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