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.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Elmshorn
- Educated at
- University of GöttingenLudwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Awards
- 🏆 Lobachevsky Prize🏆 Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 David Hilbert
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Julius Adams Stratton
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"The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. and certainty Out of it grew, in the mind of classical antiquity, the idea of pure science. Geometry became o…"
"Symmetry is a vast subject, significant in art and nature. Mathematics lies at its root, and it would be hard to find a better one on which to demonstrate the working of the mathematical intellect."
"Space and time are commonly regarded as the forms of existence of the real world, matter as its substance. A definite portion of matter occupies a definite part of space at a definite moment of time. …"
"Above all, the ominous clouds of those phenomena that we are with varying success seeking to explain by means of the quantum of action, are throwing their shadows over the sphere of physical knowledge…"
"In the field of philosophy Kant was the first to take the next decisive step towards the point of view that not only the qualities revealed by the senses, but also space and spatial characteristics ha…"
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Timeline
1885
Born
Birth1955
Died
Death
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