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Publication date:
18 September 2009
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ISBN:
3764388595
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9783764388591
Hermann Grassmann
by
Hans-Joachim Petsche
Founder of n-vector algebra, Hermann Grassman was an obscure high school teacher who made many lasting contributions to physics and linguistics. This biography details the complex network of internal and external factors that shaped Grassman's development.
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Hermann Gunther Grassmann was one of the most remarkable personalities in 19th-century science. A 'small-town genius', he developed a groundbreaking n-dimensional algebra of space and contributed to a revolution in the understanding of mathematics. His work fascinated great mathematicians such as W. R. Hamilton, J. W. Gibbs and A. N. Whitehead. This intellectual biography traces Grassmann's steps towards scientific brilliance by untangling a complicated web of influences: the force of unsolved problems in mathematics, Friedrich Schleiermacher's Dialectic, German Romanticism and life in 19th-century Prussia. The book also introduces the reader to the details of Grassmann's mathematical work without neglecting his achievements in Sanskrit philology and physics. And, for the first time, it makes many original sources accessible to the English-language reader.
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Publisher & Imprint:
Birkhauser Verlag AG
City:
Basel
Pages:
326
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height 235 mm
width 165 mm
weight 760 gr
thickness 23 mm
Summary
Hermann Grassmann
From the contents: Translator's note.- Foreword.- Introduction.- Grassmann's life.- Grassmann's sources of inspiration.- Hermann Gunther Grassmann's contributions to the development of mathematics and their place in the history of mathematics.- The genesis and essence of Hermann Gunther Grassmann's philosophical views in the Extension Theory of 1844.-Chronology of Grassmann's life.- Abbreviations.-Bibliography.- List of illustrations.- List of persons mentioned.
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