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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.

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Author:   Gert Schubring
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1996
Volume:   187
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.617kg
ISBN:  

9789048147588

ISBN 10:   9048147581
Pages:   370
Publication Date:   05 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 oncontributors.- Notes and Credits to the Illustrations.

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