ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl

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

Books and Papers

• 1913: Idee der Riemannflāche (2nd ed. 1955) (The Concept of a Riemann Surface)
• 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
• 1934: On generalized Riemann matrices
• 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

Also see

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive