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Freeman Dyson did a nice job of summing up the situation with Grassmann: "In the year 1844 two remarkable events occurred, the publication by Hamilton of his d
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Freeman Dyson did a nice job of summing up the situation with Grassmann:
"In the year 1844 two remarkable events occurred, the publication by Hamilton of his discovery of quaternions, and the publication by Grassmann of his “Ausdehnungslehre.” With the advantage of hindsight we can see that Grassmann’s was the greater contribution to mathematics, containing the germ of many of the concepts of modern algebra, and including vector analysis as a special case. However, Grassmann was an obscure high-school teacher in Stettin, while Hamilton was the world-famous mathematician whose official titles occupy six lines of print after his name at the beginning of his 1844 paper. So it is regrettable, but not surprising, that quaternions were hailed as a great discovery, while Grassmann had to wait 23 years before his work received any recognition at all from professional mathematicians. When Grassmann’s work finally became known, mathematicians were divided into quaternionists and antiquaternionists, and were spending more energy in polemical arguments for and against quaternions than in trying to understand how Grassmann and Hamilton might be fitted together into a larger scheme of things." (Source: "Missed opportunities")
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- vinnyvichy 2y agoYep, and this might be why Grassmmann was more optimistic about intertemporal exchanges.
- 082349872349872 2y agoSpeaking of intertemporal exchanges, I need to reread Twirlip of the Mists' comments.
- vinnyvichy 2y ago"Six-legs matter"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ungoverned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ungoverned
- 082349872349872 2y agoBourne has not been bobbled, but is merely Bourne-again, according to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ludlum_bibliography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ludlum_bibliography In The Karenin Stratification Jason Bourne must cope with an occult enemy (but instead of Fhtagn! they say Myob! and F'iw!) whose vessels silently drift on cross-flowing benthic rip currents to arrive at and depart the ancient hydrothermal ancap settlement of R'lyeh without detection by the maritime patrol aircraft of more traditional jurisdictions.
- vinnyvichy 2y agoThe Bibendous Unbobblebles of the Bubbly Barbarian Bible Belt (another schlager band to reanimate?) Aka "what does not kill you may still make you more or less equal."
- vinnyvichy 2y agoPresumably these are not pseudocrustaceans
- vinnyvichy 2y agoBellybelt for the subconsciously(?) congenitally nonviolent