Hermann Weyl

Hermann Weyl (November 9 1885 - December 8 1955) was a German mathematician. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich and then Princeton, he is closely identified with the University of Göttingen tradition of mathematics, represented by David Hilbert and Hermann Minkowski. His research has had major significance for theoretical physics as well as pure disciplines including number theory. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century, and a key member of the Institute for Advanced Study in its early years, in terms of creating an integrated and international view.

External links and references

• National Academy of Sciences biography
• Biography by Atiyah
• The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, "Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl". School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland
• Weisstein, Eric W., "Weyl, Hermann (1885-1955)". Eric Weisstein's World of Science.
• Bell, John L., "Hermann Weyl on intuition and the continuum" (PDF)
• Gurevich, Yuri, "Platonism, Constructivism and Computer Proofs vs Proofs by Hand" (PDF), Bulletin of the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science, 1995.
• Kilmister, C. W. Zeno, "Aristotle, Weyl and Shuard: two-and-a-half millennia of worries over number." 1980.