Hermann Günther Graßmann (1809-1877) : visionary mathematician, scientist and neohumanist scholar : papers from a sesquicentennial conference
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Hermann Günther Graßmann (1809-1877) : visionary mathematician, scientist and neohumanist scholar : papers from a sesquicentennial conference
（Boston studies in the philosophy of science, v. 187）
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1996
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In this volume specialists in mathematics, physics, and linguistics present the first comprehensive analysis of the ideas and influence of Hermann G. Grassmann (1809-1877), the remarkable universalist whose work recast the foundations of these disciplines and shaped the course of their modern development.
Table of Contents
- Introduction. I: Biography. A Survey of Grassmann's Ausdehnungslehre
- A. Beutelspacher. On Grassmann's Life and His Work as a Mathematics Teacher
- H. Schwartze. Remarks on the fate of Grassmann's Nachlass
- G. Schubring. II: Emergence of Grassmann's Ideas and Their Context. The Influence of Grassmann's Theory of Tides on the Ausdehnungslehre
- A.C. Lewis. The Influence of Justus Grassmann's Crystallographic Works on Hermann Grassmann
- E. Scholz. Geometrical Product - Exponentiation - Evolution. Justus Gunther Grassmann and Dynamist Naturphilosophie
- M.-L. Heuser. The Cooperation between Hermann and Robert Grassmann on the Foundations of Mathematics
- G. Schubring. The Origins of Colorimetry: What did Helmholtz and Maxwell Learn from Grassmann? R.S. Turner. Hermann Grassmann's Contribution to the Construction of a German `Kulturnation' - Scientific School Grammar Between Latin Tradition and French Conceptions
- E. Hultenschmidt. III: Historical Influences of Grassmann's Work. The Reception of Grassmann's Mathematical Achievements by A. Clebsch and His School
- R. Tobies. The Reception of Grassmann's Work in Germany During the 1870s
- D. Rowe. Reception of Grassmann's Ideas in Bohemia
- Z. Nadenik. The Influence of Grassmann on Italian Projective n-Dimensional Geometry
- A. Brigaglia. Hermann Gunther Grassmann and the Theory of Hypercomplex Number Systems
- K.-H. Schlote. Basis and Dimension - From Grassmann to Van der Waerden
- J.-L. Dorier. Emergence of Vector Calculus in Physics: The Early Decades
- K. Reich. Where Does Grassmann Fit in the History of Logic? I. Grattan-Guinness. The Influence of Hermann Gunther Grassmann and Robert Grassmann on ErnstSchroeder's Algebra of Logic
- V. Peckhaus. IV: Influences of Grassmann's Work on Recent Developments in Science. Algebra Grassmann Progressive and Regressive Products and CG-Algebras
- A. Brini, A.G. B. Teolis. Grassmann's Vision
- D. Hestenes. Grassmann's Dialectics and Category Theory
- F.W. Lawvere. Geometry The Completion of Grassmann's Naturwissenschaftliche Methode
- A. Swimmer. Grassmannian Manifolds in Geometry
- W. Klingenberg. Regressive Products and Bourbaki
- A. Zaddach. Physics, Technology GBP/LISTGBP The Grassmann Product in Physics
- G. Braunss. Array-Based Logic
- O.I. Franksen. An Application of Grassmann Geometry to A Problem in Robotics
- J. Pfalzgraf. Index.
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