Hermann Vermeil

Hermann Vermeil
Born	1889
Died	1959
Nationality	German
Fields	Mathematics
Alma mater	Universität Leipzig
Doctoral advisor	Otto Ludwig Hölder
Known for	Vermeil's theorem

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 Einstein’s theory. The theorem was proved by him in 1917 when he was Hermann Weyl's assistant.

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