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It is hardly conceivable that a mathematical book (a) was so much ahead of its time and (b) received so little attention from contemporary scholars as Herrmann Günther Grassmann’s Die lineale Ausdehnungslehre from 1844.
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N. Bourbaki, Éléments de Mathématique. Algèbre, Chapitre I à 3 ( Hermann: Paris 1970 ).
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Beutelspacher, A. (1996). A Survey of Grassmann’s Lineale Ausdehnungslehre . In: Schubring, G. (eds) Hermann Günther Graßmann (1809–1877): Visionary Mathematician, Scientist and Neohumanist Scholar. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 187. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8753-2_1
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