Hermann Grassmann
German polymath, linguist and mathematician (1809–1877) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Grassmann" redirects here. For the surname, see Grassmann (surname).
Hermann Günther Grassmann (German: Graßmann, pronounced [ˈhɛɐman ˈɡʏntʰɐ 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.
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Hermann Günther Grassmann | |
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Born | (1809-04-15)15 April 1809 |
Died | 26 September 1877(1877-09-26) (aged 68) Stettin, German Empire |
Alma mater | University of Berlin |
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Awards | PhD (Hon): University of Tübingen (1876) |
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Institutions | Stettin Gymnasium |
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