Hermann Weyl

Hermann Weyl was born on November 9, 1885 in the small town of Elmshorn near Hamburg.

Hermann Weyl Bell, John L. 2009

Other important pioneers of structuralism about science include Arthur Eddington (see French 2003), Grover Maxwell (see Ladyman 1998 and 3.1 below) and Hermann Weyl (see Ryckman 2005).

Structural Realism Ladyman, James 2009

Hermann Weyl was one of the greatest and most versatile mathematicians of the 20th century.

Hermann Weyl Bell, John L. 2009

According to the physicist Hermann Weyl, the best scientific work has “always tried to unite the true with the beautiful.”

Archive 2008-05-01 2008

According to the physicist Hermann Weyl, the best scientific work has “always tried to unite the true with the beautiful.”

Law's double helix 2008

Reichenbach's account of the ascension from sense data to individual things to scientific theories is via an account of testing, in spirit close to ideas that Hermann Weyl (1927) and Rudolf Carnap (1936) were later to advance, in which various hypotheses support one another, each functioning as an auxiliary in tests of others, an idea Glymour

Hans Reichenbach Glymour, Clark 2008

As he wrote in his book Science and the Unseen World, “I know of no better summary of the present scientific outlook as I conceive it than the statement of one of the greatest living mathematicians Hermann Weyl who wrote that modern science ‘makes the world appear more and more as an open one, as a world not closed but pointing beyond itself.’”

Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

As he wrote in his book Science and the Unseen World, “I know of no better summary of the present scientific outlook as I conceive it than the statement of one of the greatest living mathematicians Hermann Weyl who wrote that modern science ‘makes the world appear more and more as an open one, as a world not closed but pointing beyond itself.’”

Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

When Russell turned to other areas of analytical philosophy, Hermann Weyl took up the predicativist cause (Weyl 1918).

Philosophy of Mathematics Horsten, Leon 2007

As he wrote in his book Science and the Unseen World, “I know of no better summary of the present scientific outlook as I conceive it than the statement of one of the greatest living mathematicians Hermann Weyl who wrote that modern science ‘makes the world appear more and more as an open one, as a world not closed but pointing beyond itself.’”

Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007