Abstract: The tradition of the Gottingen mathematics school was laid by Gauss. As a spirit it had been well in- herited and further developed by several generations. The Gottingen physical school of Born, which founded the quantum mechanics, was the inevitable product when the tradition met the times when physics had special need on mathematics. The continuous inheritance of the tradition or spirit of a school is very important, which can be illus- trated by the academic diagram of the Gottingen physical school.

Key words: Gottingen physical school, Gauss, Klein, Hilbert