Ina Kersten (born 1946) is a German mathematician and former president of the
German Mathematical Society. Her research concerns
abstract algebra including the theory of
field extension
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s and
algebraic groups. She is a
professor emerita
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at the
University of Göttingen.
Kersten was born in
Hamburg, and earned her Ph.D. at the
University of Hamburg in 1977. Her dissertation, ''p-Algebren über semilokalen Ringen'', was supervised by
Ernst Witt.
She completed a
habilitation
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at the
University of Regensburg in 1983.
Kersten was president of the German Mathematical Society from 1995 to 1997, which meant she was the first woman to head the society. Under her leadership, the society founded the journal ''Documenta Mathematica''.
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1946 births
Living people
20th-century German mathematicians
German women mathematicians
Algebraists
University of Hamburg alumni
Academic staff of the University of Göttingen
Presidents of the German Mathematical Society