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Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl

BIRTH DATE:  11/9/1885
DEATH DATE:  12/8/55
CRAFT:  Mathematics
NATIONALITY:  German
PROFESSION:  mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher
TRAVELS:  Weyl's Paradox is another name for the self-referential Grelling-Nelson Paradox (1908), which asks "Is the word "heterological", meaning "not applicable to itself", a heterological word?"
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