Hermann Graßmann Biography /

• Main Author: Petsche, Hans-Joachim (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2009.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; History of Mathematical Sciences.

Hermann Günther 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 s...

Table of Contents:

• Graßmann’s life
• Graßmann’s sources of inspiration
• Hermann Günther Graßmann’s contributions to the development of mathematics and their place in the history of mathematics
• The genesis and essence of Hermann Günther Graßmann’s philosophical views in the Extension Theory of 1844.