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Hermann Grassmann

1809 - 1877

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Hermann Günther Grassmann (German: Graßmann, pronounced [ˈhɛɐman ˈɡʏntʰɐ 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Grassmann has received more than 277,275 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Grassmann is the 190th most popular mathematician (down from 154th in 2019), the 249th most popular biography from Poland (down from 203rd in 2019) and the 9th 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 190 out of 1,004. Before him are Menaechmus, Vito Volterra, Jan Łukasiewicz, Ahmes, Georg von Peuerbach, and Jean Gaston Darboux. After him are Abu Nasr Mansur, Jakob Steiner, Gabriel Lamé, Theaetetus, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, and Al-Khazini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Hermann Grassmann ranks 15. Before him are Albert Pike, Bruno Bauer, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Joseph Liouville, William Ewart Gladstone, and Ljudevit Gaj. After him are Juliusz Słowacki, Prince Albert of Prussia, Bettino Ricasoli, James Glaisher, Juan Donoso Cortés, and Luigi Federico Menabrea. Among people deceased in 1877, Hermann Grassmann ranks 16. Before him are Sophie of Württemberg, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Juan Manuel de Rosas, and Yaqub Beg. After him are Nathan Bedford Forrest, Antoine Augustin Cournot, Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Constantine Kanaris, Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Kido Takayoshi.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hermann Grassmann ranks 249 out of 1,694. Before him are Adolf Engler (1844), Martin Agricola (1486), Bolesław Prus (1847), Udo Lattek (1935), Akiba Rubinstein (1880), and Anna von Schweidnitz (1339). After him are Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749), Itzhak Stern (1901), Erich Fellgiebel (1886), Otto Klemperer (1885), Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732), and Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Hermann Grassmann ranks 9. Before him are Leopold Kronecker (1823), Marian Rejewski (1905), Ernst Kummer (1810), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Felix Hausdorff (1868), and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651). After him are Hermann Schwarz (1843), Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), Alfred Korzybski (1879), Hugo Steinhaus (1887), Vitello (1230), and Theodor Kaluza (1885).

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