Hermann Vermeil

Hermann Vermeil
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

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.

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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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[1] 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

[2] H. Vermeil (1917). "Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen". Mathematisch physikalische Klasse. 21: 334–344.

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