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Rudolf Mehmke, an outstanding propagator of Grassmann’s vector calculus. (English) Zbl 1216.01012

Petsche, Hans-Joachim (ed.) et al., Hermann Graßmann. From past to future: Graßmann’s work in context. Proceedings of the Graßmann bicentennial conference, Potsdam, Germany and Szczecin, Poland, September 16–19, 2009. Basel: Birkhäuser (ISBN 978-3-0346-0404-8/hbk). 209-220 (2011).
This is an article on the history of mathematics that refers to the mathematician Rudolf Mehmke (1857–1944). Mehmke worked in the field of applied mathematics and the history of applied mathematics – a field not as extensively investigated as the field of pure mathematics. One of Mehmke’s main disciplines was vector calculus, and he was, in particular, the main propagator of Grassmann’s “extension theory”. His main publications are listed in this article.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1205.00108].

MSC:

01A60 History of mathematics in the 20th century
01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies
15-03 History of linear algebra

Biographic References:

Mehmke, Rudolf
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