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Fritz Peter

Fritz Peter (1899–1949) was a German mathematician who helped prove the Peter–Weyl theorem. He was a student of Hermann Weyl, and later became headmaster of a secondary school (Hawkins 2000, p.502).

For the Swiss operatic tenor, see Fritz Peter (tenor).

Peter, F.; Weyl, H. (1927), "Die Vollständigkeit der primitiven Darstellungen einer geschlossenen kontinuierlichen Gruppe", Math. Ann., 97: 737–755, :10.1007/BF01447892.

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Hawkins, Thomas (2000), , Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-98963-1, MR 1771134

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