Unification, Geometry and Ambivalence: Hilbert, Weyl and the Göttingen Community

Intuition and Conceptual Construction in Weyl’s Analysis of the Problem of Space

“…47 On the development of this tradition from Riemann to Klein and Hilbert, see Rowe (1989). For further details about Weyl's relationship to the Göttingen community, see Sigurdsson (1994). and was as a Privatdocent there until 1913, when he was offered a professorship at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich.…”

Hermann Weyl’s Raum — Zeit — Materie and a General Introduction to His Scientific Work

“…To comprehend how Weyl entered the stage of general relativity one must take the G6ttingen milieu into account and in particular its approach to mathematical physics shaped by Klein, Minkowski and Hilbert. Readers interested in these questions will find recent information on these topics in (Rowe 1989(Rowe , 1997(Rowe , 1999 and (Sigurdsson 1991(Sigurdsson , 1994 on G6ttingen mathematics and physics in general, (Walter 1999) and (Corry 1997a) on Minkowski, (Corry 1996(Corry , 1997b(Corry , 1999a, (Sauer 1999) and (RennjStachel 1999) on Hilbert's understanding of the role of mathematization in physics and on the interaction of Einstein and Hilbert in 1915. On the development of field theories at the time one can consult (Vizgin 1994) and (Cao 1997).…”