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Table of contents (38 papers)
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On the lives of the Grassmann brothers
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Historical contexts of Hermann Grassmann’s creativity
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Philosophical and methodological aspects of the work of the Grassmann brothers
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Diversity of the influence of the Grassmann brothers
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Diversity of the influence of the Grassmann brothers
About this book
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.
This book contains 37 papers presented at the conference. They investigate the significance of Graßmann's work for philosophical as well as for scientific and methodological questions, for comparative philology in general and for Indology in particular, for psychology, physiology, religious studies, musicology, didactics, and, last but not least, mathematics. In addition, the book contains numerous illustrations and English translations of original sources, which are published here for the first time. These include life histories of Graßmann (written by his son Justus) and of his brother Robert (written by Robert himself), as well as the paper "On the concept and extent of pure theory of number'' by Justus Graßmann (the father).
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Past to Future: Graßmann's Work in Context
Book Subtitle: Graßmann Bicentennial Conference, September 2009
Editors: Hans-Joachim Petsche, Albert C. Lewis, Jörg Liesen, Steve Russ
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0405-5
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Basel AG 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-0346-0404-8Published: 07 January 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-0738-8Published: 21 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-0346-0405-5Published: 16 December 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 580
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences