Who they are
Hermann Weyl worked across geometry, group theory and mathematical physics, later serving on the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study. He appears here through the early development of wave mechanics: Schrödinger explicitly acknowledged his mathematical assistance in the first paper on quantization as an eigenvalue problem. That acknowledgment is distinct from coauthorship.
He illustrates the mathematical collaboration supporting the emergence of quantum mechanics.
Selected contributions
Primary records
Academic paper · 1926
Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem (Erste Mitteilung)
Schrödinger treats atomic energy levels as an eigenvalue problem and works through nonrelativistic hydrogen. The inspected sections show the wave-mechanical approach and its acknowledged antecedents.
Original German first communication; manuscript received January 27, 1926. This is not the entire later series.
Reading scope & citation
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In the timeline
Biography sources & portrait credit
- Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem (Erste Mitteilung) ↗Annalen der Physik; original German scan on Wikimedia Commons
- Hermann Weyl ↗Institute for Advanced Study
Portrait credit
ETH Zürich. CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph. Cropped to 4:5, resized to 320 × 400 and converted to WebP.
