Hermann Vermeil

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| birth_date = 1889

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| death_date = 1959

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| nationality = German

| fields = Mathematics

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| alma_mater = Universität Leipzig

| doctoral_advisor = Otto Ludwig Hölder

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| known_for = Vermeil's theorem

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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 Albert Einstein’s theory.{{citation|last1 =Kosmann-Schwarzbach |first1=Y.|title=The Noether Theorems: Invariance and Conservation Laws in the Twentieth Century: Invariance and Conservation Laws in the 20th Century|series=Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences|year = 2011|publisher = Springer|authorlink=Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach| location= New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London|page=71 | doi = 10.1007/978-0-387-87868-3|isbn=978-0-387-87867-6}} The theorem was proved by him in 1917{{cite journal|title=Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen|author=H. Vermeil|journal=Mathematisch physikalische Klasse|volume=21|year=1917|pages=334–344}} when he was Hermann Weyl's assistant.

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