In memoriam Helene Weyl: A sketch, not so much of Hella as of our life together, written at the end of June 1948

Abstract

This text was composed as a eulogy for Helene Weyl (née Josef) by her husband, the prominent mathematician Hermann Weyl. It is, in his words, a ‘sketch, not so much of Hella as of our life together, written at the end of June 1948’, and covers her early life and their years together as young academics in Göttingen and Zürich, as well as their experiences under the National Socialist dictatorship, leading to their emigration in 1933. It concludes with an account of their last years together in Princeton, where Hermann was a member of the Institute of Advanced Study.