  While this account of events leading up to Weyl’s groundbreaking  papers on group theory seems reasonable enough, Hawkins (2000) has  suggested a fuller account, which brings into focus Weyl’s deep  philosophical interest in the mathematical foundations of the theory  of general relativity by drawing attention to Weyl (1924d) on tensor  symmetries, which, according to Hawkins, played an important role in  redirecting Weyl’s research interests toward pure   mathematics.[86]  Weyl (1949b, 400) himself noted that his interest in the  philosophical foundations of the general theory of relativity  motivated his analysis of the representations and invariants of the  continuous groups: “I can say that the wish to understand what  really is the mathematical substance behind the formal apparatus of  relativity theory led me to the study of representations and  invariants of groups; and my experience in this regard is probably  not unique”. Weyl’s paper (Weyl (1924a)), and the first chapter Weyl (1925) of his celebrated papers on representation theory, have  the same title: “The group theoretic foundation of the tensor  calculus”. Hawkins (1998) says, Weyl 