Hermann Weyl

Hermann Weyl (born November 9, 1885, in Elmshorn; died December 8, 1955, in Zürich) was a mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and psychologist. Weyl held citizenship in the German Empire, Weimar Republic, and the United States. He was educated at the University of Göttingen and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Weyl's doctoral advisor was David Hilbert, and he mentored several doctoral students, including Saunders Mac Lane, Julius Adams Stratton, Fritz Fischer, Fritz Gassmann, Alexander Weinstein, and Alfred Aeppli. He had one child named Fritz Joachim Weyl.

Throughout his career, Weyl made contributions to various fields, and his notable works include Weyl's postulate, Peter–Weyl theorem, Weyl group, Weyl algebra, Weyl tensor, and Weyl transformation. He also contributed to the research and development of concepts like equidistribution theorem, Weyl's theorem, Weyl curvature hypothesis, Wigner–Weyl transform, Weyl's inequality, and Weyl–Schouten theorem.