Saturday, March 15, 2025

Hermann Weyl (1885-1955)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Weyl

He was one of the first to conceive of combining general relativity with the laws of electromagnetismFreeman Dyson wrote that Weyl alone bore comparison with the "last great universal mathematicians of the nineteenth century", Henri Poincaréand David Hilbert.[7] Michael Atiyah, in particular, has commented that whenever he examined a mathematical topic, he found that Weyl had preceded him.[8]