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    Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl, ForMemRS (German: [vaɪl]; 9 November 1885 – 8 December 1955) was a German mathematician, theoretical physicist, logician and...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Wigner–Weyl transform, for another definition of the Weyl transform. In theoretical physics, the Weyl transformation, named after Hermann Weyl, is a local...
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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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  • 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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  • variables. It is generated by Xi and ∂Xi, i = 1, ..., n. Weyl algebras are named after Hermann Weyl, who introduced them to study the Heisenberg uncertainty...
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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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    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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  • calque of "complex" introduced by Hermann Weyl in 1939. In mathematics it may refer to: Symplectic Clifford algebra, see Weyl algebra Symplectic geometry Symplectic...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • mathematics, Weyl's theorem or Weyl's lemma might refer to one of a number of results of Hermann Weyl. These include the Peter–Weyl theorem Weyl's theorem...
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    dualities in quantum field theory. 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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    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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  • introduced by Adolf Hurwitz (1897) for the special linear group and by Hermann Weyl for general semisimple groups. It applies to show that the representation...
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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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  • description was 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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    linear space (vector space) [...] became widely known around 1920, when Hermann Weyl and others published formal definitions. In fact, such a definition had...
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  • In mathematics, the Weyl integration formula, introduced by Hermann Weyl, is an integration formula for a compact connected Lie group G in terms of a maximal...
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  • lawyer and politician Hermann de Stern (1815–1887), German–born British banker. Hermann Wendland (1825–1903), German botanist Hermann Weyl (1885–1955), German...
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    1920s, by Élie Cartan (as part of his general theory of connections) and Hermann Weyl (who used the notion as a part of his foundations for general relativity)...
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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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