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Hermann Weyl

1885 - 1955

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Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl, (German: [vaɪl]; 9 November 1885 – 8 December 1955) was a German mathematician, theoretical physicist, logician and philosopher. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich, Switzerland, and then Princeton, New Jersey, he is associated with the University of Göttingen tradition of mathematics, represented by Carl Friedrich Gauss, David Hilbert and Hermann Minkowski. His research has had major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines such as number theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Weyl has received more than 690,143 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Hermann Weyl is the 124th most popular mathematician (down from 117th in 2019), the 767th most popular biography from Germany (down from 688th in 2019) and the 17th most popular German Mathematician.

Hermann Weyl is most famous for his theory of relativity and his work in mathematical physics.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Hermann Weyl ranks 124 out of 1,004. Before him are Leonid Kantorovich, Josef Stefan, Nicomachus, Alexis Clairaut, Christopher Clavius, and Zu Chongzhi. After him are Herbert A. Hauptman, Marian Rejewski, Ferdinand von Lindemann, Liu Hui, Étienne Bézout, and Colin Maclaurin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Hermann Weyl ranks 34. Before him are George Minot, Sabina Spielrein, Alexander Löhr, Heinrich Hoffmann, Sinclair Lewis, and Hugo Boss. After him are Erich von Stroheim, Hugo Sperrle, Luigi Russolo, Kato Svanidze, Tomoyuki Yamashita, and Giacomo Matteotti. Among people deceased in 1955, Hermann Weyl ranks 24. Before him are Paul Claudel, George Enescu, Calouste Gulbenkian, Pak Hon-yong, Carmen Miranda, and Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria. After him are Oswald Avery, Garegin Nzhdeh, Leonid Govorov, Mihály Károlyi, Michael Chekhov, and Vasily Blokhin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Weyl ranks 767 out of 7,253. Before him are Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1729), Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (1735), Joachim Frank (1940), Karl Harrer (1890), Ryke Geerd Hamer (1935), and Matilda of Ringelheim (894). After him are Markus Wolf (1923), Ralf Dahrendorf (1929), Constantin Fehrenbach (1852), Juana Bormann (1893), James Last (1929), and Therese Neumann (1898).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Hermann Weyl ranks 17. Before him are Richard Dedekind (1831), Alexander Grothendieck (1928), Regiomontanus (1436), Felix Klein (1849), Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804), and Christopher Clavius (1538). After him are Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852), Hermann of Reichenau (1013), Andrew Wiles (1953), Johannes Trithemius (1462), Robert Aumann (1930), and Ernst Zermelo (1871).

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