Hermann Vermeil (1889–1959) was a German mathematician who produced the first published proof that the scalar curvature is the only absolute invariant among those of prescribed type suitable for Albert Einstein’s theory.[1] The theorem was proved by him in 1917[2] when he was Hermann Weyl's assistant.
Hermann Vermeil | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1889 |
| Died | 1959 |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | Universität Leipzig |
| Known for | Vermeil's theorem |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Doctoral advisor | Otto Ludwig Hölder |
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- ^ Kosmann-Schwarzbach, Y. (2011), The Noether Theorems: Invariance and Conservation Laws in the Twentieth Century: Invariance and Conservation Laws in the 20th Century, Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London: Springer, p. 71, doi:10.1007/978-0-387-87868-3, ISBN 978-0-387-87867-6
- ^ H. Vermeil (1917). "Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen". Mathematisch physikalische Klasse. 21: 334–344.
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