Hermann Vermeil

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Hans Anton Hermann Vermeil (born October 20, 1889 in Dresden ; † 1959 ) was a German mathematician who provided the first published evidence that the scalar curvature is the only absolute invariant among those of the prescribed type that are suitable for Albert Einstein's theory . The theorem was proven by him in 1917 when he was Hermann Weyl's assistant.

Life

Vermeil was a nephew of the mathematician and university professor Hans von Mangoldt . From 1909 he studied in Danzig , Tübingen and Leipzig , where he received his doctorate in 1914. From 1917 to 1918 he continued his studies in Göttingen . In 1919 he worked as a university assistant in Göttingen and Danzig, and in 1923 in Aachen . From 1925 he taught as a teacher at the Technical State School in Cologne .

Fonts (selection)

  • The approximation method Xn = [Phi] (Xn-1) and its application to the theory and practice of algebraic and transcendent equations. Dissertation Leipzig 1914. Borna-Leipzig; Noske 1914.
  • Determination of a quadratic differential form from the Riemann and Christoffel differential invariants with the help of normal coordinates . In: Mathematische Annalen, Vol. 19, 1918. pp. 209-312.
Editing

Felix Klein : Collected Mathematical Treatises. Edited by Robert Fricke , A. Ostrowski , Hermann Vermeil, Erich Bessel-Hagen . Volume 1-3. Berlin: Springer; Reprint of the Berlin 1922 edition (Springer Collection Works in Mathematics.)

1. Line geometry - basic geometry for the Erlangen program . 1922.
2. Descriptive geometry - substitution groups and equation theory - on mathematical physics .
3. Elliptic functions, especially module functions - hyperelliptic and Abelian functions - Riemannian function theory and automorphic functions .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vermeil, Hans Anton Hermann. In: Johann Christian Poggendorff : Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences . Volume 6, part 4, Berlin 1939.
personal data
SURNAME Vermeil, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vermeil, Hans Anton Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 1959