Max Koecher

Life

Koecher studied mathematics and physics at the Georg- August University in Göttingen. In 1951 he completed his doctorate there with the work over Dirichlet series with functional equation with Max Deuring, the dissertation but was supervised by Hel Braun. He habilitated in 1954 at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. From 1962 to 1970, Koecher holds a chair at the University of Munich, before he returned in 1970 as the successor of Hans Petersson to Münster. He retired in 1989.

His main field of research was the theory of Jordan algebras, on which he published numerous works. He became internationally known through the discovery of the so-called Koecher effect in the theory of Siegel modular forms. In 1970 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice ( Jordan algebras and differential geometry ).

He also dealt with geometric questions about Castel del Monte.

Publications

• The Minnesota Notes on Jordan Algebras and Their Applications, Max Koecher, Aloys Publisher war, Sebastian Walcher, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1710, Springer, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-540-66360-6
• Classical elementary calculus, Max Koecher, Birkhäuser, Basel ( 1987)
• Numbers, Heinz D. Ebbinghaus, Hans Hermes, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Max Koecher, Klaus Mainzer, Jürgen Neukirch, Alexander Prestel, Reinhold Remmert, John H. Ewing, Springer Berlin ( 1991) ISBN 3-540-97202-1
• Numbers, 3rd edition, Heinz D. Ebbinghaus, Hans Hermes, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Max Koecher, Klaus Mainzer, Jürgen Neukirch, Alexander Prestel, Reinhold Remmert, Springer Berlin ( 1992) ISBN 3-540-55654-0 ( therein by Koecher Contributions to the theory of algebras with Remmert )
• A woman and mathematics from 1933 to 1940. The beginning of an academic career. Hel Brown, editor Max Koecher, Springer, Berlin ( 1989) ISBN 3-540-52166-6