Saunders Mac Lane
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Saunders Mac Lane, born Leslie Saunders MacLane, was an American mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg.
Saunders Mac Lane
MacLane and Samuel Eilenberg at a conference in July 1992
Hermann Weyl
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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,
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…the last Americans to study at the University of Göttingen prior to its decline under the Nazis. His greatest influences there were Paul Bernays and Hermann Weyl. By the time he finished his doctorate in 1934, Bernays had been forced to leave because he was Jewish, and Weyl became his main examiner. At Göttingen…
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)