nLab Hermann Weyl

• Wikipedia entry

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry

Texts about Weyl

• Erhard Scholz, Philosophy as a cultural resource and medium of reflection for Hermann Weyl (arXiv:math/0409596)

• Erhard Scholz, Weyl geometry in late 20th century physics (arXiv:1111.3220)

Selected writings

On intuitionistic mathematics following L.E.J. Brouwer:

• Hermann Weyl, Über die neue Grundlagenkrise der Mathematik, Zürich 1920 (gdz, purl:PPN266833020_0010)

• Hermann Weyl, Die heutige Erkenntnislage in der Mathematik, Weltkreis-Verlag, Erlangen 1926. (GoogleBooks)

Both of these are available in English translations as part of:

• Paolo Mancosu (ed.), From Brouwer To Hilbert: The Debate on the Foundations of Mathematics in the 1920s, Oxford University Press 1998.

On general relativity

• Raum, Zeit, Materie: Vorlesungen über die Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie, Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1923

On symmetry and the Erlangen program:

• Hermann Weyl, Symmetry, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 28 6 (1938) 253-271 $[$jstor:24530200$]$

On the group theory and representation theory (and introducing Schur-Weyl duality)

• Hermann Weyl, The Classical Groups: Their Invariants and Representations, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1939 (jstor:j.ctv3hh48t)

On philosophy of mathematics:

• Hermann Weyl, Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science, Princeton University Press, 2nd edition, Princeton University Press, 1950 (ISBN:9780691141206)

Related $n$Lab entries

• gauge theory

• conformal geometry, conformal field theory

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