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Textbooks on the history of mathematics normally do not mention the mathematician Rudolf Mehmke (1857–1944), and you cannot find his name in smaller dictionaries of mathematicians. Mehmke’s contributions to mathematics would be worthy of greater recognition however, because they were very original and of high quality. Mehmke did not work in the field of pure mathematics, but rather in the field of applied mathematics, and the history of applied mathematics has not been investigated as intensively as the history of pure mathematics.
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Reich, K. (2011). Rudolf Mehmke, an outstanding propagator of Grassmann’s vector calculus. In: Petsche, HJ., Lewis, A., Liesen, J., Russ, S. (eds) From Past to Future: Graßmann's Work in Context. Springer, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0405-5_19
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