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Dewey Class	510.9 (DDC 23)
Title	Hermann Graßmann (EB) : Biography / by Hans-Joachim Petsche.
Author	Petsche, Hans-Joachim
Other name(s)	SpringerLink (Online service)
Publication	Basel : Birkhäuser , 2009.
Physical Details	XX, 306 S. : online resource.
ISBN	9783764388607
Summary Note	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 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 Schleiermacherâs 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.:
Contents note	From the contents: Translator's note -- Preface -- Introduction -- Graßmann’s life -- Graßmann’s sources of inspiration -- Hermann Günther Graßmann 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.-Chronology of Hermann Graßmann's life -- Abbreviations.-Bibliography -- List of illustrations -- List of persons mentioned.
System details note	Online access to this digital book is restricted to subscription institutions through IP address (only for SISSA internal users)
Internet Site	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8860-7
Links to Related Works	Subject References: History of mathematics . Mathematics . Mathematics - History . Authors: Petsche, Hans-Joachim . Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service) . Classification: 510.9 (DDC 23) .

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