Hermann Grassmann, Gymnasiallehrer in Stettin und bekannt als Begrunder der n-dimensionalen Vektoralgebra, erwarb sich auch in der Physik und der Sprachforschung bleibende Verdienste. Gestutzt auf die Dialektik Schleiermachers entwickelte er in seinem Hauptwerk, der Ausdehnungslehre, mit philosophischer Methode eine vollig neue mathematische Disziplin. Zunachst von der Fachwelt abgelehnt, wurde sein Werk Jahrzehnte spater als wegweisend gefeiert. Die Biographie geht dem komplexen Geflecht innerer und ausserer Einflusse nach, innerhalb derer Grassmann sein...
Hermann Grassmann, Gymnasiallehrer in Stettin und bekannt als Begrunder der n-dimensionalen Vektoralgebra, erwarb sich auch in der Physik ...
Hermann Gunther Gramann was one of the most remarkable personalities in 19th-century science. A "small-town genius," he developed a groundbreaking n-dimensional algebra of space and contributed to a revolution in the understanding of mathematics. His work fascinated great mathematicians such as W. R. Hamilton, J. W. Gibbs and A. N. Whitehead. This intellectual biography traces Gramann's steps towards scientific brilliance by untangling a complicated web of influences: the force of unsolved problems in mathematics, Friedrich Schleiermacher's Dialectic, German Romanticism and life in...
Hermann Gunther Gramann was one of the most remarkable personalities in 19th-century science. A "small-town genius," he developed a groundbreaking ...
Comprising unpublished material including photographs and letters that were believed lost forever, this book gives deep insights into the great scholar 's struggle for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.
Comprising unpublished material including photographs and letters that were believed lost forever, this book gives deep insights into the great sch...
On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hermann Gramann (1809-1877), an interdisciplinary conference was held in Potsdam, Germany, and in Gramann's hometown Szczecin, Poland. The idea of the conference was to present a multi-faceted picture of Gramann, and to uncover the complexity of the factors that were responsible for his creativity. The conference demonstrated not only the very influential reception of his work at the turn of the 20th century, but also the unexpected modernity of his ideas, and their continuing development in the 21st century.
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On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hermann Gramann (1809-1877), an interdisciplinary conference was held in Potsdam, Germa...
On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hermann Grassmann (1809-1877), an interdisciplinary conference was held in Potsdam, Germany, and in Grassmann's hometown Szczecin, Poland. The idea of the conference was to present a multi-faceted picture of Grassmann, and to uncover the complexity of the factors that were responsible for his creativity. The conference demonstrated not only the very influential reception of his work at the turn of the 20th century, but also the unexpected modernity of his ideas, and their continuing development in the 21st century....
On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hermann Grassmann (1809-1877), an interdisciplinary conference was held in Potsdam, Ger...
