Max Koecher
Biography
Koecher studied mathematics and physics at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen.
In 1951, he received his doctorate under Max Deuring with his work {{harv|Koecher|1953}} on Dirichlet series with functional equation where he introduced Koecher–Maass series. He qualified in 1954 at the Westfälische Wilhelms University in Münster. From 1962 to 1970, Koecher was department chair at the University of Munich. He retired in 1989.
His main research area was the theory of Jordan algebras, where he introduced the Kantor–Koecher–Tits construction and the Koecher–Vinberg theorem, and introduced the concept of an admissible algebra. He discovered the Koecher boundedness principle in the theory of Siegel modular forms
References
- {{Citation | last1=Koecher | first1=Max | title=Über Dirichlet-Reihen mit Funktionalgleichung | url=http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PPN=PPN243919689_0192 | mr=0057907 | year=1953 | journal=Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik | issn=0075-4102 | volume=192 | pages=1–23}}
- {{Citation | last1=Krieg | first1=A. | last2=Petersson | first2=H. P. | title=Max Koecher zum Gedächtnis | url=http://dml.math.uni-bielefeld.de/JB_DMV/#Band95 | mr=1203926 | year=1993 | journal=Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung | issn=0012-0456 | volume=95 | issue=1 | pages=1–27}}
- {{Citation | last1=Petersson | first1=Holger P. | editor1-last=Kaup | editor1-first=Wilhelm | editor2-last=McCrimmon | editor2-first=Kevin | editor3-last=Petersson | editor3-first=Holger P. | title=Jordan algebras (Oberwolfach, 1992) | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ORQb_wNBNgC&pg=PA187 | publisher=de Gruyter | location=Berlin | isbn=978-3-11-014251-8 | mr=1293319 | year=1994 | chapter=Max Koecher's work on Jordan algebras | pages=187–195}}
External links
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- [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Max_Koecher Max Koecher] on Wikimedia Commons
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