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Hermann Weyl
German mathematician
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl, was a German mathematician, theoretical physicist, logician and philosopher. Although much of his working life was spent in Zurich, Switzerland, and then Princeton, New Jersey, he is associated with the University of Gottingen tradition of mathematics, represented by Carl Friedrich Gauss, David Hilbert and Hermann Minkowski.
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Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl, was a German mathematician, theoretical physicist, logician and philosopher. Although much of his working life was spent in Zurich, Switzerland, and then Princeton, New Jersey, he is associated with the University of Gottingen 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”, Poincare and Hilbert. Michael Atiyah, in particular, has commented that whenever he examined a mathematical topic, he found that Weyl had preceded him.