Hermann Günther Grassmann was a gifted German thinker whose work spanned the fields of mathematics and linguistics, theology, and botany. His decision to focus on mathematics came when he was 31, but he abandoned the field 20 years later when his...

1809-1877 German-Polish mathematician best known for his work on the calculus of vectors. Grassmann also developed a geometrical algebra in which symbols represented geometrical entities instead of numbers. In addition, his development of what he...

Hermann Günther Grassmann (April 15, 1809, Stettin – September 26, 1877, Stettin) was a German polymath, renowned in his day as a linguist and now admired as a mathematician. He was also a physicist, neohumanist, all-round scholar, and...