Nationality German Alma mater Leipzig University Known for Vermeil's theorem Fields Mathematics | Name Hermann Vermeil Doctoral advisor Otto Holder Died 1959 | |
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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