TY - BOOK AU - Grassmann, Hermann TI - Die Lineale Ausdehnungslehre Ein Neuer Zweig Der Mathematik T2 - Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics SN - 9781108050432 U1 - 512.5 PY - 2013/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Mathematics N1 - Includes index N2 - This remarkable 1844 publication by the Prussian schoolteacher Hermann Grassmann (1809–77) was largely misunderstood by the mathematicians of his time and went unrecognized for many years. However, it foreshadowed 20th-century advances such as vector spaces, dimension theory, and exterior products, and is now considered a foundational work in mathematics ER -