The Lessons of Hermann Grassmann and the Nature of Abstractions
Jeffrey Emanuel
Length40m
About this audiobook
I periodically think about Hermann Grassmann and get sucked into reading about his life and work. Most people haven't heard of him, and even if they have, they can't tell you much about him. In short, he was a German polymath born in 1809. He was the son of an ordained minister who also taught math and physics at the local high school (technically, a Gymnasium) which Grassmann attended, and where he was not conspicuously brilliant or accomplished, although he was very good at music. Hermann then attended the University of Berlin, where he made the terrible choice in retrospect of studying theology with a sprinkling of classical languages.
