Hermann Graßmann - Roots and Traces: Autographs and Unknown Documents

ISBN-13: 9783034601542 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 267 str.

Hans-Joachim Petsche; Lloyd Kannenberg; Gottfried Kealer

Opis

Comprising unpublished material including photographs and letters that were believed lost forever, this book gives deep insights into the great scholar 's struggle for self-discovery, and allows the relationship to his very different brother to emerge vividly.

Spis treści

From the contents: Introduction.- Justus Günther Graßmann, the father.- Friedrich Heinrich Gotthilf Graßmann, the uncle and stepfather of Robert Graßmann.- Robert Graßmann, the brother.- Hermann Günther Graßmann.- Hermann Graßmann the Younger, the son.- Three remarkable students of Hermann Graßmann: the Indologist Richard von Garbe, the philosopher Paul Carus, the musicologist Gustav Jacobsthal.- Notes.- Name index

Blurb

Hermann Günther Graßmann was one of the 19^th century’s most remarkable scientists, but many aspects of his life have remained in the dark. This book assembles essential, first-hand information on the Graßmann family. It sheds light on the family’s struggle for scientific knowledge, progress and education. It puts a face on the protagonists of an exciting development in the history of science. And it highlights the peculiar set of influences which led Hermann Graßmann to brilliant insights in mathematics, philology and physics.

This book of sources is meant to complement the biography of Graßmann and the proceedings of the 2009 Graßmann Bicentennial Conference (Birkhäuser 2010). "Roots and Traces" will interest all scholars working on Hermann Graßmann and related topics. It offers newly discovered pictures of family members, historical texts documenting life in this exceptional family and an English translation of these previously unpublished papers.

Text in German and English.