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Dewey Class	511.3
Title	Hermann Günther Graßmann (1809–1877): Visionary Mathematician, Scientist and Neohumanist Scholar ([EBook] :) : Papers from a Sesquicentennial Conference / / edited by Gert Schubring.
Added Personal Name	Schubring, Gert editor.
Other name(s)	SpringerLink (Online service)
Publication	Dordrecht : : Springer Netherlands : : Imprint: Springer, , 1996.
Physical Details	XXX, 370 p. : online resource.
Series	Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 0068-0346 ; ; 187
ISBN	9789401587532
Summary Note	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.:
Contents note	A survey of Grassmann’s Ausdehnungslehre -- On Grassmann’s life and his work as a mathematics teacher -- Remarks on the fate of Grassmann’s Nachlaß -- The influence of Grassmann’s theory of tides on the Ausdehnungslehre -- The influence of Justus Grassmann’s crystallographic works on Hermann Grassmann -- Geometrical Product — Exponentiation — Evo-lution. Justus Günther Grassmann and dynamist Naturphilosophie -- The cooperation between Hermann and Robert Grassmann on the foundations of mathematics -- The origins of colorimetry: What did Helmholtz and Maxwell learn from Grassmann? -- Hermann Grassmann’s contribution to the construction of a German “Kulturnation” — Scientific school grammar between Latin tradition and French conceptions -- The reception of Grassmann’s mathematical achievements by A. Clebsch and his school -- The reception of Grassmann’s work in Germany during the 1870s -- Reception of Grassmann’s ideas in Bohemia -- The influence of Grassmann on Italian projective n-dimensional geometry -- Hermann Günther Grassmann and the theory of hypercomplex number systems -- Basis and Dimension — from Grassmann to van der Waerden -- Emergence of vector calculus in physics: the early decades -- Where does Grassmann fit in the history of logic? -- The influence of Hermann Günther Grassmann and Robert Grassmann on Ernst Schröder’s Algebra of Logic -- Grassmann progressive and regressive products and CG-Algebras -- Grassmann’s Vision -- Grassmann’s Dialectics and Category Theory -- The completion of Grassmann’s Natur-Wissenschaftliche Methode -- Grassmannian manifolds in geometry -- Regressive products and Bourbaki -- The Grassmann product in physics -- Array-based logic -- An application of Grassmann geometry to a problem in robotics -- Notes on contributors -- Notes and Credits to the Illustrations.
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Internet Site	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8753-2
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Historical Linguistics . History . History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics . History, general . Logic . Mathematical logic . Mathematical Logic and Foundations . Mathematics . Philosophy and science . Philosophy of Science . Physics . Authors: Schubring, Gert . Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service) . Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science . Classification: 511.3 .

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