Book ID: CBB000070141

Hermann Günther Grassmann (1809-1877): Visionary mathematician, scientist and neohumanist scholar: Papers from a sesquicentennial conference (1996)

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Schubring, Gert (Editor)


Kluwer Academic


Publication Date: 1996
Physical Details: xxix + 359 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Contents: Schubring, Gert: Introduction: Reflections on the complex history of Grassmann's reception. Beutelspacher, Albrecht: A survey of Grassmann's Ausdehnungslehre. Schwartze, Heinz: On Grassmann's life and his work as a mathematics teacher. Schubring, Gert: Remarks on the fate of Grassmann's Nachlass. Lewis, Albert C.: The influence of Grassmann's theory of tides on the Ausdehnungslehre. Scholz, Erhard: The influence of Justus Grassmann's crystallographic works on Hermann Grassmann. Heuser, Marie-Luise: Geometrical product, exponentiation, evo-lution: Justus Günther Grassmann and dynamist Naturphilosophie. Schubring, Gert: The cooperation between Hermann and Robert Grassmann on the foundations of mathematics. Turner, R. Steven: The origins of colorimetry: What did Helmholtz and Maxwell learn from Grassmann? Hültenschmidt, Erika: Hermann Grassmann's contribution to the construction of a German “Kulturnation”: Scientific school grammar between Latin tradition and French conceptions. Tobies, Renate: The reception of Grassmann's mathematical achievements by A. Clebsch and his school. Rowe, David: The reception of Grassmann's work in Germany during the 1870s. Zbyněk NÁdenik: Reception of Grassmann's ideas in Bohemia. Brigaglia, Aldo: The influence of Grassmann on Italian projective n-dimensional geometry. Schlote, Karl-Heinz: Hermann Günther Grassmann and the theory of hypercomplex number systems. Dorier, Jean-Luc: Basis and dimension, from Grassmann to van der Waerden. Reich, Karin: Emergence of vector calculus in physics: The early decades. Grattan-Guinness, Ivor: Where does Grassmann fit in the history of logic? Peckhaus, Volker: The influence of Hermann Günther Grassmann and Robert Grassmann on Ernst Schröder's algebra of logic. Brini, Andrea, Teolis, Antonio G.B.: Grassmann progressive and regressive products and CG-algebras. Hestenes, David: Grassmann's vision. Lawvere, F. William: Grassmann's dialectics and category theory. Swimmer, Alvin: The completion of Grassmann's Naturwissenschaftliche Methode. Klingenberg, Wilhelm: Grassmannian manifolds in geometry. Zaddach, Arno: Regressive products and Bourbaki. Braunss, Günter: The Grassmann product in physics. Franksen, Ole Immanuel: Array-based logic. Pfalzgraf, Jochen: An application of Grassmann geometry to a problem in robotics.


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Authors & Contributors
Petsche, Hans-Joachim
Lewis, Albert C.
Grassmann, Hermann
Fearnley-Sander, Desmond
Schubring, Gert
Scholz, Erhard
Concepts
Mathematics
Physics
Linguistics; philology
Biographies
Algebra
Geometry
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Places
Germany
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