"Georg Hamel was born in 1877 in Düren, Germany, and died in 1954 in Landshut, Germany. In 1897, Hamel went to the University of Berlin, where he was taught by Hermann Schwarz and Max Planck, to name two. Subsequently, he went to Göttingen University, where he studied with Felix Klein and David Hilbert. He was awarded a doctorate under the supervision of Hilbert in 1901. The subject of his dissertation was Hilbert’s fourth problem. In 1905, he went to Brno. It was during the period of his work in Brno that his 1905 paper on Hamel bases was written."
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Georg Hamel
Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel (12 September 1877 – 4 October 1954) was a German mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory.
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