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Hermann Weyl’s “Purely Infinitesimal Geometry”

In: Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians

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  • Erhard Scholz

    (Bergische, Universität, Fachbereich 7: Mathematik)

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The years 1916 and 1921/22 delimit a phase of Weyl’s work during which he made his most radical contributions to the foundations of mathematics as well as of highly innovative contributions to differential geometry and classical field theory. All of this work had a strongly speculative background. Although Weyl lived and worked in Zürich from 1913 onward, he continued to be a German citizen and had been drafted into the German army in May 1915. He was discharged from the service after an intervention by the Swiss government in August 1916.1 The deep crisis of European culture in the years surrounding World War I was deeply felt in a very personal way by Weyl, although his reaction had much in common with the way this crisis was felt by other German academic intellectuals, particularly in the cultural sciences.2

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  • Erhard Scholz, 1995. "Hermann Weyl’s “Purely Infinitesimal Geometry”," Springer Books, in: S. D. Chatterji (ed.), Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, pages 1592-1603, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-0348-9078-6_156
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-9078-6_156
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