Mathematician:Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl

Mathematician

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

German

Definitions of concepts named for Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl can be found here.

1910: Über die Gibbs'sche Erscheinung und verwandte Konvergenzphänomene (Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo Vol. 30: pp. 377 – 407)
1913: Idee der Riemannflāche
1918: Das Kontinuum (translated 1987 by Stephen Pollard and Thomas Bole as The Continuum: A Critical Examination of the Foundation of Analysis)
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
Jul. 1934: Harmonics on Homogeneous Manifolds (Ann. Math. Ser. 2 Vol. 35, no. 3: pp. 486 – 499) www.jstor.org/stable/1968746
1934: On generalized Riemann matrices
1935: Emmy Noether (Scripta Math. Vol. 3: pp. 201 – 220)
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: The Concept of a Riemann Surface (3rd edition, translated, of Idee der Riemannflāche from 1913)

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

--Jul. 1934: Harmonics on Homogeneous Manifolds (Ann. Math. Ser. 2 Vol. 35, no. 3: pp. 486 – 499) www.jstor.org/stable/1968746

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

--Symmetry, 1952