Helmut Hasse

Helmut Hasse
Born	(1898-08-25)25 August 1898 Kassel, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia
Died	26 December 1979(1979-12-26) (aged 81) Ahrensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany
Nationality	German
Alma mater	University of Marburg University of Göttingen
Known for	Conductor-discriminant formula Hasse's theorem on elliptic curves Hasse–Schmidt derivation
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Thesis	Über die Darstellbarkeit von Zahlen durch quadratische Formen im Körper der rationalen Zahlen (1922)
Doctoral advisor	Kurt Hensel
Doctoral students	Cahit Arf Wolfgang Franz Hans-Wilhelm Knobloch Paul Lorenzen Curt Meyer Peter Roquette Otto Schilling Oswald Teichmüller

Helmut Hasse (German: [ˈhasə]; 25 August 1898 – 26 December 1979) was a German mathematician^[1] working in algebraic number theory, known for fundamental contributions to class field theory, the application of p-adic numbers to local class field theory and diophantine geometry (Hasse principle), and to local zeta functions.