From Religion to Dialectics and Mathematics

Hermann Grassmann is known to be the founder of modern vector and tensor calculus. Having as a theologian no formal education in mathematics at a university he got his basic ideas for this mathematical innovation at least to some extent from listening to Schleiermacher’s lectures on Dialectics and,...

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Main Author: Achtner Wolfgang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2016-03-01
Series:Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2016-0007