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    Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl, ForMemRS (/vaɪl/; German: [vaɪl]; 9 November 1885 – 8 December 1955) was a German mathematician, theoretical physicist, logician...
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  • In quantum mechanics, the Wigner–Weyl transform or Weyl–Wigner transform (after Hermann Weyl and Eugene Wigner) is the invertible mapping between functions...
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    the Weyl equation is a relativistic wave equation for describing massless spin-1/2 particles called Weyl fermions. The equation is named after Hermann Weyl...
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  • In differential geometry, the Weyl curvature tensor, named after Hermann Weyl, is a measure of the curvature of spacetime or, more generally, a pseudo-Riemannian...
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    mathematics, in particular the theory of Lie algebras, the Weyl group (named after Hermann Weyl) of a root system Φ is a subgroup of the isometry group of...
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  • compact Lie groups in terms of their highest weights. It was proved by Hermann Weyl (1925, 1926a, 1926b). There is a closely related formula for the character...
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  • infinite sequence of movements, and the paradox is resolved. According to Hermann Weyl, the assumption that space is made of finite and discrete units is subject...
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  • attributed to the German philosopher and mathematician Hermann Weyl thus occasionally called Weyl's paradox or Grelling's paradox. It is closely related...
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    was described by Pavel Alexandrov, Albert Einstein, Jean Dieudonné, Hermann Weyl and Norbert Wiener as the most important woman in the history of mathematics...
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  • was initially proved by Hermann Weyl, with his student Fritz Peter, in the setting of a compact topological group G (Peter & Weyl 1927). The theorem is...
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    remained there for the rest of his life. Among Hilbert's students were Hermann Weyl, chess champion Emanuel Lasker, Ernst Zermelo, and Carl Gustav Hempel...
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  • In philosophy, Weyl's tile argument, introduced by Hermann Weyl in 1949, is an argument against the notion that physical space is "discrete", as if composed...
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  • theory of Lie groups, Issai Schur, who discovered the phenomenon, and Hermann Weyl, who popularized it in his books on quantum mechanics and classical groups...
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  • discovered in 1911 (in the d = 2 , 3 {\displaystyle d=2,3} case) by Hermann Weyl for eigenvalues for the Laplace–Beltrami operator acting on functions...
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  • José Enrique Moyal; also called the star product or Weyl–Groenewold product, after Hermann Weyl and Hilbrand J. Groenewold) is an example of a phase-space...
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  • In mathematics, Weyl's lemma, named after Hermann Weyl, states that every weak solution of Laplace's equation is a smooth solution. This contrasts with...
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  • surrounding an axisymmetric distribution of mass–energy. They are named for Hermann Weyl, Thomas Lewis, and Achilles Papapetrou. The square of the line element...
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  • at the conference: the Wigner Medal (1978–2018), the Hermann Weyl Prize (since 2002) and the Weyl–Wigner Award (since 2022). The Wigner Medal was an award...
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    Spinor (redirect from Majorana-Weyl spinor)
    algebra. Lawson & Michelsohn 1989, Appendix D. Brauer & Weyl 1935. Brauer, Richard; Weyl, Hermann (1935). "Spinors in n dimensions". American Journal of...
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  • In mathematics, a Weyl sequence is a sequence from the equidistribution theorem proven by Hermann Weyl: The sequence of all multiples of an irrational...
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    structure of a symplectic manifold. The term "symplectic", introduced by Hermann Weyl, is a calque of "complex"; previously, the "symplectic group" had been...
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  • In theoretical physics, the Weyl transformation, named after German mathematician Hermann Weyl, is a local rescaling of the metric tensor: g a b → e −...
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    Washington, D.C. Fritz Joachim Weyl was the son of mathematician Hermann Weyl and the author and translator Helene Weyl. Fritz received his Bachelor of...
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    In 1928, German mathematician, philosopher and theoretical physicist Hermann Weyl proposed a wormhole hypothesis of matter in connection with mass analysis...
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    York 1952 (Dover) entitled H. A. Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Hermann Minkowski, and Hermann Weyl, The Principle of Relativity: A Collection of Original Memoirs...
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  • "complex" introduced by Hermann Weyl in 1939. In mathematics it may refer to: Symplectic category Symplectic Clifford algebra, see Weyl algebra Symplectic...
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    the case of Riemann surfaces. Frenkel was the first recipient of the Hermann Weyl Prize in 2002. Among his other awards are Packard Fellowship for Science...
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    the Rockefeller Foundation to study mathematics under David Hilbert. Hermann Weyl remembers how in the winter of 1926–1927 von Neumann, Emmy Noether, and...
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  • preeminent scholars, including Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Hermann Weyl, John von Neumann, Michael Walzer, Clifford Geertz and Kurt Gödel, many...
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  • fermions in quantum field theory. Weyl spinors are a solution to the Dirac equation derived by Hermann Weyl, called the Weyl equation. For example, one-half...
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