Ina Kersten

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Ina Kersten (born 1946){{r|born}} 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.{{r|zeit}} She is a professor emerita at the University of Göttingen.

Kersten was born in Hamburg,{{r|zeit}} and earned her Ph.D. at the University of Hamburg in 1977. Her dissertation, p-Algebren über semilokalen Ringen, was supervised by Ernst Witt.{{r|mg}}

She completed a habilitation at the University of Regensburg in 1983.{{r|hab}}

Kersten was president of the German Mathematical Society from 1995 to 1997,{{r|zeit}} which meant she was the first woman to head the society.{{r|tjm}} Under her leadership, the society founded the journal Documenta Mathematica.{{r|documenta}}

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External links

[https://www.uni-math.gwdg.de/kersten/ Home page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027221428/https://www.uni-math.gwdg.de/kersten/ |date=2021-10-27 }}

Category:1946 births

Category:Living people

Category:20th-century German mathematicians

Category:German women mathematicians

Category:Algebraists

Category:University of Hamburg alumni

Category:Academic staff of the University of Göttingen

Category:Presidents of the German Mathematical Society