Fritz Joachim Weyl

Fritz Joachim Weyl (February 19, 1915 – July 20, 1977) was born in Zurich, Switzerland. Today Weyl is regarded as a renowned mathematician. During his lifetime he taught at many universities, significantly contributed to research in mathematics and came to be very well respected. One of the universities he taught at was the George Washington University (GW), in Washington DC.

Fritz was the son of another famous mathematician named Hermann Weyl. Fritz received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Swarthmore College, which is located in Pennsylvania, in 1935. Weyl then went on to obtain a Master's degree in 1937 from Princeton University, in New Jersey. Finally Weyl was awarded a PhD, also by Princeton University in 1939 for his work in the field of mathematics. His PhD dissertation at Princeton was entitled “Analytic Curves” and is twenty-five pages in length.Salomon Bochner served as his dissertation advisor and oversaw his research in the area while Weyl was studying at Princeton. Bochner too is well known in the math world. He is a native of Germany and received his PhD in 1921 from the University of Berlin. His dissertation advisor was Erhard Schmidt. While at Princeton, Bochner advised many students who went on to achieve much academic success in their own right.

Professor Weyl taught at a number of different universities during his life. These include a stay at the University of Illinois, the University of Maryland, College Park, Indiana University, and the George Washington University. In addition to teaching, Weyl was employed as a research analyst by the U.S. government for a period of time. After his stay there he went on to serve as the Dean of Science and Mathematics at Hunter College in New York City.

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