Mathematician:Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl
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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's Paradox (mistaken attribution: also known as Grelling's Paradox or Grelling-Nelson Paradox for Kurt Grelling and Leonard Nelson)
Results named for Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl can be found here.
Publications
- 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)
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!
- --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
Sources
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Weyl, Hermann (1885-1955)
- 2008: David Joyner: Adventures in Group Theory (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Where to begin...
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Weyl, Hermann Klaus Hugo (1885-1955)
- 2021: Richard Earl and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (6th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Weyl, Hermann (1885-1955)