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Hermann Grassmann
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German polymath, linguist and mathematician (1809–1877)
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Hermann Günther Graßmann (1809–1877) was a Prussian mathematician, physicist, linguist, and teacher. Born in Szczecin, he was educated at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. His professional work spanned algebra, physics, mathematics, and philology. He served as a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony.
Notable works include *Lehrbuch der Arithmetik für höhere Lehranstalten*, *Wörterbuch zum Rig-Veda*, *Schraubenrechnung und Nullsystem*, *Geometrische analyse geknüpft an die von Leibniz erfundene geometrische Charakteristik*, and *A flaw in the foundation of geometry*. He is also associated with Grassmann's law, Grassmann number, and the Grassmannian. Grassmann spoke German and played the piano. He had 11 children and died in Szczecin.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1809
- Died
- 1877
- Works
- 21
Top works
- Lehrbuch der Arithmetik für höhere Lehranstalten
- Wörterbuch zum Rig-Veda
- Schraubenrechnung und Nullsystem
- Geometrische analyse geknüpft an die von Leibniz erfundene geometrische Charakteristik
- A flaw in the foundation of geometry
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1809-04-15 ) 15 April 1809, Stettin , Province of Pomerania , Kingdom of Prussia , (present-day Szczecin, Poland)
- Died
- 26 September 1877 (1877-09-26) (aged 68), Stettin, Province of Pomerania , Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
- Alma mater
- University of Berlin
- Known for
- Bivector Color space Grassmannian Grassmann algebra Grassmann number Grassmann's law Grassmann's laws
- Awards
- PhD (Hon) :, University of Tübingen (1876)
- Institutions
- Stettin Gymnasium
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Günther
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Place of birth
- Szczecin
- Place of death
- Szczecin
- Occupation
- pedagogue
- Languages spoken
- German
- Field of work
- linguistics
- Instrument
- piano
- Image
- Hermann Graßmann.jpg
- Number of children
- 11
- Residence
- Kingdom of Prussia
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- date of birth
- 1809-04-15
- date of death
- 1877-09-26
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Hermann Grassmann
- name in native language
- Hermann Günther Graßmann
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- birth name
- Hermann Günther Graßmann
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Encyclopedic overview
1878 copy of Grassmann's "Die lineale Ausdehnungslehre" First page of "Die lineale Ausdehnungslehre" Hermann Günther Grassmann (German: Graßmann, pronounced [ˈhɛʁman ˈɡʏntɐ ˈɡʁasman]; 15 April 1809 – 26 September 1877) was a German polymath known in his day as a linguist and now also as a mathematician. He was also a physicist, general scholar, and publisher. His mathematical work was little noted until he was in his sixties. His work preceded and exceeded the concept which is now known as a vector space. He introduced the Grassmannian, the space which parameterizes all k-dimensional linear subspaces of an n-dimensional vector space V. In linguistics he helped free language history and structure from each other.
Biography
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