Alwin Korselt

Alwin Reinhold Korselt
Born17 March 1864
Mittelherwigsdorf, Kingdom of Saxony
Died4 February 1947 (1947-02-05) (aged 82)
Plauen
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Leipzig
Known forKorselt's Criterion
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Doctoral advisorOtto Hölder and Carl Gottfried Neumann

Alwin Reinhold Korselt (17 March 1864, in Mittelherwigsdorf – 4 February 1947, in Plauen) was a German mathematician.[1] He discovered Korselt's criterion, which provides a secondary definition for Carmichael numbers[2] and also contributed an early result in algebraic logic.[3]

  1. ^ Kreiser, Lothar (1995), "Die Hörer Freges und sein Briefpartner Alwin Korselt", Wittgenstein Studien (in German), 2 (1), archived from the original on 2014-02-02, retrieved 2010-05-14
  2. ^ Weisstein, Eric W. "Korselt's Criterion". MathWorld.
  3. ^ Burris, Stanley (2009). "The Algebra of Logic Tradition". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.