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
Journals
Studia Leibnitiana
Science in Context
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Mathematische Semesterberichte
Janus: revue internationale de l'histoire des sciences, de la medecine, de la pharmacie et de la technique
History and Philosophy of Logic
Publishers
Birkhäuser
University of Texas, Austin
Open Court
C.A. Reitzels Forlag
Birkhäuser Verlag
American Mathematical Society
Concepts
Mathematics
Linguistics; philology
Physics
Biographies
Algebra
Geometry
People
Grassmann, Hermann Günther
Schleiermacher, Friedrich Ernst Daniel
Weierstrass, Karl Theodor
Viète, François de la Bigotière
Wessel, Caspar
Schwarz, Hermann Amandus
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Places
Germany
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