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...

HERMANN NITSCH MIKE WEISS GALLERY There are many paths to ecstasy. Some, pace Blake, lead down the road of excess, while others go the way of asceticism. The relationship between heightened states of mind and the process of artmaking has always been...

Hermann Lause war ein wunderbarer Schauspieler, der zwischen Skurrilität und Eiseskälte alle Facetten menschlicher Eigentümlichkeit auszuspielen vermochte. In Nebenrollen gröÃeren und kleineren Zuschnitts lieferte er einfühlsame Charakterstudien von auÃerordentlicher Originalität, wobei er selbst kürzeste Auftritte präsent und präzise zu darstellerischen Kabinettstückchen machte. Er konnte...