Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl was a German mathematician, theoretical physicist, logician and philosopher, born on 9 November 1885 and died on 8 December 1955. Although much of his working life was spent in Zurich, Switzerland, and then Princeton, New Jersey, he is associated with the University of Gottingen tradition of mathematics, represented by Gauss, Hilbert and Minkowski. He contributed to an exceptionally wide range of fields, including works on space, time, matter, philosophy, logic, symmetry and the history of mathematics, and was one of the first to conceive of combining general relativity with electromagnetism.
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his working life was spent in Zürich, Switzerland, and then Prin
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was a German mathematician
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theoretical physicist
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number theory
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logic
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His doctorate was awarded at the University of Göttingen under the supervision of David Hilbert, whom he greatly admired.
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In mathematics, in particular the theory of Lie algebras, the Weyl group (named after Hermann Weyl) of a root system Φ is a subgroup of the isometry group of that root system. Specifically,
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In algebra, Weyl's theorem on complete reducibility is a fundamental result in the theory of Lie algebra representations (specifically in
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