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Hermann Grassmann and the Creation of Linear Algebra

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:20.
  • Biographical
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Personal
  • Physical Sciences
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URL: 

http://www.maths.utas.edu.au/People/dfs/Papers/GrassmannLinAlgpaper/GrassmannLinAlgpaper.html

Author: 
Desmond Fearnley-Sander
Excerpt: 

The geometric algebra of which Leibniz dreamed, and in which the concept of real number is thoroughly assimilated, was created by Hermann Grassmann in the mid-nineteenth century.

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