Hermann Weyl
| Hermann Weyl was a German mathematician and philosopher, part of the University of Göttingen tradition with Bernhard Riemann, David Hilbert, Hermann Winkowski, who was transferred in 1933 (supposedly because of nazi purging) to the Institute of Advanced Studies of Princeton, which played a role in the Manhattan Project with John von Neumann and Edward Teller. At EHT in Zürich Switzerland, he was a colleague teacher of Albert Einstein and friend of Erwin Schrödinger. He was a member of the Royal Society, National Academy of Sciences and American Philosophical Society and participated in the International Congress of Mathematicians. |
He and his wife Helena Weyl-Mecklenburg was influenced by University of Göttingen philosopher Edmund Husserl (phenomenology, study of consciousness).
He wrote a paper on infinitesimal geometry with Howard Robertson (National Defense Research Council, CIA, Robertson Panel during Project Blue Book).
In 1913 he wrote The Concept of a Riemann Surface. He developed gauge theory and group theory.
With von Neumann, he developed the mathematical framework for quantum mechanics.
He participated in the Eranos Conferences of Theosophist Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn (influenced by Alice Bailey, mother friend of GB Shaw) with Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade, Joseph Campbell, Gershom Scholem, Ludwig Derleth (Stefan George circle), Martin Buber, Erwin Schrödinger near Monte Verità.
His son Fritz taught at George Washington University and was president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
born 11/9/1885.
died 12/8/1955.
Works
1913 The Concept of a Riemann Surface
1922 Space Time Matter
1927 Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science
1928 The Theory of Groups and Quantum Mechanics
1934 Mind and Nature (University of Pennsylvania)
1950 Ramifications, old and new, of the eigenvalue problem