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Hermann Gramann biography

Hermann Günther Graßmann 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 Graßmann{u2019}s steps towards scientific brilliance by untangling a complicated web of influences: the force of unsolved problems in mathematics, Friedrich Schleiermacher{u2019}s Dialectic, German Romanticism and life in 19th-century Prussia. The book also introduces the reader to the details of Graßmann{u2019}s mathematical work without neglecting his achievements in Sanskrit philology and physics. And, for the first time, it makes many original sources accessible to the English-language reader.

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  • "Hermann Günther Graßmann 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 Graßmann{u2019}s steps towards scientific brilliance by untangling a complicated web of influences: the force of unsolved problems in mathematics, Friedrich Schleiermacher{u2019}s Dialectic, German Romanticism and life in 19th-century Prussia. The book also introduces the reader to the details of Graßmann{u2019}s mathematical work without neglecting his achievements in Sanskrit philology and physics. And, for the first time, it makes many original sources accessible to the English-language reader."@en
  • "Hermann Gramann, Gymnasiallehrer in Stettin und bekannt als Begrnder der n-dimensionalen Vektoralgebra, erwarb sich auch in der Physik und der Sprachforschung bleibende Verdienste. Gesttzt auf die Dialektik Schleiermachers entwickelte er in seinem Hauptwerk, der Ausdehnungslehre, mit philosophischer Methode eine vllig neue mathematische Disziplin. Zunchst von der Fachwelt abgelehnt, wurde sein Werk Jahrzehnte spter als wegweisend gefeiert. Die Biographie geht dem komplexen Geflecht innerer und uerer Einflsse nach, innerhalb derer Gramann sein Schpfertum entfaltete."

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