Hermann Weyl

Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl ( VILE; German: [vaɪl]; 9 November 1885 – 8 December 1955) was a German mathematician, theoretical physicist, logician and philosopher. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich, Switzerland, and then Princeton, New Jersey, he is associated with the University of Göttingen tradition of mathematics, represented by Carl Friedrich Gauss, David Hilbert and Hermann Minkowski.

His research has had major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines such as number theory. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century, and an important member of the Institute for Advanced Study during its early years.

Weyl contributed to an exceptionally wide range of fields, including works on space, time, matter, philosophy, logic, symmetry and the history of mathematics. He was one of the first to conceive of combining general relativity with the laws of electromagnetism.

Freeman Dyson wrote that Weyl alone bore comparison with the "last great universal mathematicians of the nineteenth century", Henri Poincaré and David Hilbert. Michael Atiyah commented that whenever he examined a mathematical topic, he found that Weyl had preceded him.

Notable works: Weyl tensor, Weyl equation, Weyl group, Weyl algebra, Peter–Weyl theorem, Weyl's inequality, Weyl–Brauer matrices, Weyl curvature hypothesis Awards: Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship, Lobachevsky Prize, Fellow of the American Physical Society, honorary doctorate of the University of Oslo, honorary doctorate from Columbia University, honorary doctor of ETH Zürich, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, honorary doctor of the University of Stuttgart, Arnold-Reymond prize, doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris Education: University of Göttingen, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Christianeum

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