Hermann Graßmann : biography
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Hermann Graßmann : biography
Birkhäuser, c2009
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Scientific consultants: Lloyd Kannenberg and Steve Russ
Includes bibliography
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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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