Hermann weyl biography

          Hermann Weyl was born on 9 November , the son of Ludwig and Anna Weyl, in the small town of Elmshorn near Hamburg.

          Hermann Weyl was a great and versatile mathematician of the 20 th century..

          Biography

          Hermann Weyl was known as Peter to his close friends. His parents were Anna Dieck and Ludwig Weyl who was the director of a bank.

          As a boy Hermann had already showed that he had a great talents for mathematics and for science more generally. After taking his Abiturarbeit (high school graduation exam)(see [17]) he was ready for his university studies.

          In 1904 he entered the University of Munich, where he took courses on both mathematics and physics, and then went on to study the same topics at the University of Göttingen.

          Biography.

        1. Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl, ForMemRS was a German mathematician, theoretical physicist, logician and philosopher.
        2. Hermann Weyl was a great and versatile mathematician of the 20 th century.
        3. German American mathematician who, through his widely varied contributions in mathematics, served as a link between pure mathematics and theoretical physics.
        4. Born to Ludwig and Anna Weyl in Elmshorn, Germany on November 9, , Weyl showed great promise in mathematics even as a young boy.
        5. He was completely captivated by Hilbert. He later wrote:-

          I resolved to study whatever this man had written. At the end of my first year I went home with the "Zahlbericht" under my arm, and during the summer vacation I worked my way through it - without any previous knowledge of elementary number theory or Galois theory.

          These were the happiest months of my life, whose shine, across years burdened with our common share of doubt and failure, still comfo