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Hermann Grassmann

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Gender Male
Death147 years ago
Date of birth April 15,1809
Zodiac sign Aries
Born Szczecin
Poland
Date of died September 26,1877
DiedSzczecin
Poland
Known forMultilinear algebra
Grassmannian
Exterior algebra
ResidenceKingdom Of Prussia
German Empire
Job Mathematician
Polymath
Physicist
Linguist
BooksExtension theory
Die Ausdehnungslehre
A new branch of mathematics
Wörterbuch zum Rig-Veda
Gesammelte mathematische und physikalische Werke
Rig-Veda (1877)
Alma mater University of Berlin
Awards University of Tübingen
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Hermann Grassmann Life story


Hermann Günther Grassmann 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.

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