Quick Facts About Hermann Weyl
- Born
- November 7, 1866
- Died
- November 20, 1925
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Politician
- Notable works
- Raum, Zeit, Materie: Vorlesungen über allgemeine Relativitätstheorie.
- Known for
- Weyl group, Weyl tensor, Weyl algebra, Weyl's postulate, Wigner–Weyl transform
- Spouse
- Helene Weyl
About Hermann Weyl
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl 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.
Biography source:
Wikipedia
Awards & Honors
Lobachevsky Prize
Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
honorary doctorate from Columbia University
Fellow of the American Physical Society
honorary doctorate of the University of Oslo
honorary doctor of ETH Zürich
honorary doctor of the University of Stuttgart
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Arnold-Reymond prize
doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
