Mathematician:Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl

Mathematician
German mathematician who worked in the fields of mathematical logic and mathematical physics.

Nationality
German

History

 * Born: 9 Nov 1885 in Elmshorn (near Hamburg), Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
 * Died: 9 Dec 1955 in Zürich, Switzerland

Theorems and Definitions

 * Weyl Algebra
 * Weyl's Axioms


 * Weyl's Paradox (mistaken attribution: also known as Grelling's Paradox or Grelling-Nelson Paradox for and )

Publications

 * 1913: Idee der Riemannflāche
 * 1918: Das Kontinuum (translated 1987 by and  as )
 * 1918: Raum, Zeit, Materie (Space Time Matter)
 * 1923: Mathematische Analyse des Raumproblems
 * 1924: Was ist Materie?
 * 1925: Riemann's Geometrische Idee (published 1988)
 * 1927: Philosophie der Mathematik und Naturwissenschaft (2nd ed. 1949) (Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science)
 * 1928: Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik (The Theory of Groups and Quantum Mechanics)
 * 1929: Elektron und Gravitation I
 * 1933: The Open World
 * 1934: Mind and Nature
 * 1934: On generalized Riemann matrices
 * 1935: Elementary Theory of Invariants
 * 1935: The structure and representation of continuous groups (Lectures at Princeton university during 1933-34)
 * 1939: Classical Groups: Their Invariants And Representations
 * 1940: Algebraic Theory of Numbers
 * 1952: Symmetry
 * 1955: (3rd edition, translated, of Idee der Riemannflāche from 1913)
 * 1940: Algebraic Theory of Numbers
 * 1952: Symmetry
 * 1955: (3rd edition, translated, of Idee der Riemannflāche from 1913)

Notable Quotes

 * A "finite" country can be watched by a finite number of policemen, however small the radius of action of the single policeman may be!


 * [Symmetry is] one idea by which man has tried throughout the ages to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.
 * --Symmetry, 1952