Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl (9 November 1885 - 8 December 1955) was a German mathematician and theoretical physicist. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century, and an important member of the Institute for Advanced Study during its early years. Weyl published technical and some general works on space, time, matter, philosophy, logic, symmetry and the history of mathematics. He was one of the first to conceive of combining general relativity with the laws of electromagnetism. Read more