Walther Mayer

Mayer in 1931

Walther Mayer (11 March 1887 – 10 September 1948) was an Austrian mathematician, born in Graz, Austria-Hungary.[1] With Leopold Vietoris he is the namesake of the Mayer–Vietoris sequence in topology.[2] He served as an assistant to Albert Einstein,[1] and was nicknamed "Einstein's calculator".[3]

  1. ^ a b Pais, Abraham (1982), Subtle is the Lord : The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein, Oxford University Press, pp. 492–494, ISBN 9780191524028.
  2. ^ Krömer, Ralph (2007), "2.1.4 The Work of Walther Mayer on Chain Complexes", Tool and Object: A History and Philosophy of Category Theory, Science Networks: Historical Studies, vol. 32, Springer, p. 51, ISBN 9783764375249.
  3. ^ Topper, David (2012), How Einstein Created Relativity Out of Physics and Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol. 394, Springer, p. 137, ISBN 9781461447818.

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