Hermann Weyl

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human mathematician theoretical physicist university teacher

Hermann Weyl was a German mathematician and theoretical physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to group theory, differential geometry, and the mathematical formulation of gauge theory in modern physics.

Statements (57)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human → mathematician → theoretical physicist → university teacher →
awardReceived	Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science → Lobachevsky Prize →
countryOfCitizenship	German Empire → Germany → United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1885-11-09 →
dateOfDeath	1955-12-08 →
doctoralAdvisor	David Hilbert →
educatedAt	University of Göttingen → University of Munich →
employer	ETH Zurich → Institute for Advanced Study → Princeton University → University of Göttingen →
familyName	Weyl →
fieldOfWork	differential geometry → functional analysis → gauge theory → group theory → mathematics → number theory → philosophy of mathematics → representation theory → spectral theory → theoretical physics →
givenName	Hermann →
knownFor	Weyl algebra → Weyl character formula → Weyl group → Weyl law → Weyl quantization → Weyl tensor → Weyl’s contribution to representation theory of Lie groups → Weyl’s gauge theory →
languageOfWorkOrName	English → German →
memberOf	National Academy of Sciences → Prussian Academy of Sciences → Royal Society →
movement	intuitionism →
nativeLanguage	German →
notableStudent	André Weil → Saunders Mac Lane →
notableWork	Die Idee der Riemannschen Fläche → Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik → Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science → Raum, Zeit, Materie → Symmetry → The Classical Groups: Their Invariants and Representations →
placeOfBirth	Elmshorn →
placeOfDeath	Zürich →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Helene Weyl →

Referenced by (12)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
David Hilbert → Emmy Noether → Friedrich Bernhard Riemann → Leopold Kronecker →	influenced
David Hilbert → Hermann Minkowski →	doctoralStudent
Harish-Chandra → John von Neumann →	influencedBy
Saunders Mac Lane →	doctoralAdvisor
Howard P. Robertson →	hasAcademicAdvisor
Institute for Advanced Study →	notableScholar
Hermann Minkowski →	student