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Hermann Grassmann

1809 - 1877

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Grassmann is the 229th most popular mathematician (down from 190th in 2019), the 271st most popular biography from Poland (down from 249th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Polish Mathematician.

Hermann Grassmann was a German mathematician who is most famous for his work in linear algebra. His book, "Die lineale Ausdehnungslehre" (1844), was one of the first to study the geometric properties of linear transformations.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Hermann Grassmann ranks 229 out of 1,004. Before him are Martin Kutta, Tullio Levi-Civita, Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam, Antoine Augustin Cournot, Pierre Varignon, and Helge von Koch. After him are Menaechmus, Karen Uhlenbeck, Abu Nasr Mansur, Theaetetus, Joseph Petzval, and Michael Atiyah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Hermann Grassmann ranks 18. Before him are Joseph Liouville, Albert Pike, Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Juliusz Słowacki, and Ljudevit Gaj. After him are Prince Albert of Prussia, Matsumura Sōkon, Bettino Ricasoli, Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Fredrik Pacius, and Luigi Federico Menabrea. Among people deceased in 1877, Hermann Grassmann ranks 17. Before him are Sophie of Württemberg, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Juan Manuel de Rosas, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, and Antoine Augustin Cournot. After him are Nathan Bedford Forrest, Kido Takayoshi, Yaqub Beg, Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse, Jung Bahadur Rana, and Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hermann Grassmann ranks 271 out of 1,694. Before him are Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1954), Martin Kutta (1867), Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889), Maria Szymanowska (1789), Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska (1676), and Franz Mehring (1846). After him are Henryk Szeryng (1918), Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848), Władysław I Herman (1043), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), Jan Kochanowski (1530), and Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Hermann Grassmann ranks 12. Before him are Felix Hausdorff (1868), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865), Hermann Schwarz (1843), and Martin Kutta (1867). After him are Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), Vitello (1230), Hugo Steinhaus (1887), Alfred Korzybski (1879), Richard Courant (1888), and Klaus Roth (1925).

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