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’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 19th-century Prussia. The book also introduces the reader to the details of Graßmann’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.
Hans-Joachim Petsche
Hermann Graßmann
Biography
Hermann Graßmann
Biography
Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 306 ● ISBN 9783764388607 ● Dateigröße 10.2 MB ● Verlag Springer Basel ● Ort Basel ● Land CH ● Erscheinungsjahr 2009 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 5250549 ● Kopierschutz Soziales DRM