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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.

Early in his career, Weyl worked on the theory of numbers, singular integral equations, and functions of a complex variable.

Early in his career, Weyl worked on the theory of numbers, singular integral equations, and functions of a complex variable.

Hermann Weyl was one of the greatest mathematicians of the first half of the twentieth century.

Born to Ludwig and Anna Weyl in Elmshorn, Germany on November 9, , Weyl showed great promise in mathematics even as a young boy.

During the war years Weyl focused on the advancement of military related technology.

There, under brilliant teachers who also included Felix Klein and Hermann Minkowski, Weyl completed his mathematical apprenticeship.

In 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. 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 comforts m