Editors:
- Publication of documents on the life of Graßmann previously unpublished and believed (in part) to be lost
- Bilingual presentation of text (German/English)
- For the first time evidence is published here about the personal life of Graßmann
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Hermann Günther Graßmann was one of the 19th century’s most remarkable scientists, but many aspects of his life have remained in the dark. This book assembles essential, first-hand information on the Graßmann family. It sheds light on the family’s struggle for scientific knowledge, progress and education. It puts a face on the protagonists of an exciting development in the history of science. And it highlights the peculiar set of influences which led Hermann Graßmann to brilliant insights in mathematics, philology and physics.
This book of sources is meant to complement the biography of Graßmann and the proceedings of the 2009 Graßmann Bicentennial Conference (Birkhäuser 2010). "Roots and Traces" will interest all scholars working on Hermann Graßmann and related topics. It offers newly discovered pictures of family members, historical texts documenting life in this exceptional family and an English translation of these previously unpublished papers.
Text in German and English.
Editors and Affiliations
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Potsdam, Germany
Hans-Joachim Petsche, Gottfried Keßler
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Weston, USA
Lloyd Kannenberg
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Książnica Pomorska im. Stanisława Staszica, Szczecin, Poland
Jolanta Liskowacka
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hermann Graßmann – Roots and Traces
Book Subtitle: Autographs and Unknown Documents
Editors: Hans-Joachim Petsche, Gottfried Keßler, Lloyd Kannenberg, Jolanta Liskowacka
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0155-9
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Birkh�user Basel 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-0346-0154-2Published: 18 September 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-3-0346-0155-9Published: 08 January 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 256
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences