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Hermann Günther Graßmann (1809-1877): Visionary Mathematician, Scientist and Neohumanist Scholar

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-7923-4261-8
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erscheinungstermin: 31.08.1996
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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.

Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780792342618
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-7923-4261-8
  • Verlag: Springer Netherlands
  • Erscheinungstermin: 31.08.1996
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1996
  • Serie: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
  • Produktform: Gebunden, HC runder Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 1640 g
  • Seiten: 370
  • Format (B x H x T): 160 x 241 x 27 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

Schubring, Gert

Schubring, G.

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.