Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl 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,
Hermann Weyl ETH Bib Portr 00890
Hermann Weyl (left) with Ernst Peschl
The Theory of Groups and Quantum Mechanics (translated from the second, revised German edition by Howard P. Robertson)
Temps, espace, matière (French, 1922)
David Hilbert was a German mathematician and philosopher of mathematics and one of the most influential mathematicians of all time.
Hermann Weyl
…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…
The Mathematical Institute in Göttingen. Its new building, constructed with funds from the Rockefeller Foundation, was opened by Hilbert and Courant in 1930.