* 29 December 1861, † 1 June 1941
Kurt Hensel was born on 29 December 1861 in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). Hensel invented the p-adic numbers, an algebraic theory which has proved important in later applications. Kurt Hensel died on 1 June 1941 in Marburg, Germany.
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