In mathematical physics, a Grassmann number, named after Hermann Grassmann (also called an anticommuting number or supernumber), is an element of the exterior...
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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...
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between them. The n-dimensional generalization, the Grassmann number, was introduced by Hermann Grassmann in the late 19th century. In modern algebra, the...
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Exterior algebra (redirect from Grassmann algebra)
In mathematics, the exterior algebra or Grassmann algebra of a vector space V {\displaystyle V} is an associative algebra that contains V , {\displaystyle...
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Superspace (redirect from Grassmann dimensions)
are also "anticommuting" dimensions whose coordinates are labeled in Grassmann numbers rather than real numbers. The ordinary space dimensions correspond...
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Grassmannian (redirect from Grassmann manifold)
V ) {\displaystyle \mathbf {Gr} _{k}(V)} (named in honour of Hermann Grassmann) is a differentiable manifold that parameterizes the set of all k {\displaystyle...
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logical rigor in the foundations of mathematics. In the 1860s, Hermann Grassmann suggested a recursive definition for natural numbers, thus stating they...
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Grassmann's laws describe empirical results about how the perception of mixtures of colored lights (i.e., lights that co-stimulate the same area on the...
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Hermann Grassmann: Grassmann's laws Grassmann algebra Grassmann bundle Grassmann dimensions Grassmann graph Grassmann integral Grassmann number Grassmann variables...
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Berezin integral (redirect from Grassmann integral)
Berezin, (also known as Grassmann integral, after Hermann Grassmann), is a way to define integration for functions of Grassmann variables (elements of...
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Plücker embedding (redirect from Grassmann coordinates)
usually called the Plücker relations, or Grassmann–Plücker relations, defining the intersection of a number of quadrics in P ( ⋀ k V ) {\displaystyle...
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Imaginary unit (redirect from I (number))
a bivector. Hestenes, David (1996). "Grassmann's Vision" (PDF). In Schubring, G. (ed.). Hermann Günther Graßmann (1809–1877). Springer. doi:10.1007/978-94-015-8753-2_20...
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Lagrangian Grassmannian Grassmann algebra, or exterior algebra, a setting where the exterior product is defined. Grassmann number, a construction for path...
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In graph theory, Grassmann graphs are a special class of simple graphs defined from systems of subspaces. The vertices of the Grassmann graph Jq(n, k) are...
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1853, Grassmann published a theory of how colors mix; it and its three color laws are still taught, as Grassmann's law. As noted first by Grassmann... the...
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Grassmann algebra and Hamilton's quaternion algebra. Adding the dual of the Grassmann exterior product (the "meet") allows the use of the Grassmann–Cayley...
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term anti-commuting c-number is also used to refer to a type of anti-commuting numbers that are mathematically described by Grassmann numbers. The term is...
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Operators. The symbol U+2229 ∩ INTERSECTION was first used by Hermann Grassmann in Die Ausdehnungslehre von 1844 as general operation symbol, not specialized...
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In mathematics, a Grassmann–Cayley algebra is the exterior algebra with an additional product, which may be called the shuffle product or the regressive...
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{\displaystyle \alpha ,{\dot {\alpha }}=1,2} , where each component is a Grassmann number. In total this forms 4 spin coordinates. The notation for N = 1 {\displaystyle...
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formalizing arithmetic was not well appreciated until the work of Hermann Grassmann, who showed in the 1860s that many facts in arithmetic could be derived...
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pairings gives zero in this case (there are always an even number of them). This is the Grassmann analog of the higher Gaussian moments that completed the...
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Graphical timeline of the universe Grashof condition Grashof number Grassmann integral Grassmann number Gravastar Gravimeter Gravimetry Graviphoton Graviscalar...
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is the (real-number-valued) spacetime coordinate, and θ {\displaystyle \theta \,} and θ ¯ {\displaystyle {\bar {\theta }}} are Grassmann-valued spatial...
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père et fils Grassmann, Hermann (1844), Die Lineale Ausdehnungslehre - Ein neuer Zweig der Mathematik (in German), reprint: Hermann Grassmann. Translated...
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Vertex cover (redirect from Vertex covering number)
Minzer, Dor; Safra, Muli (2017). "On independent sets, 2-to-2 games, and Grassmann graphs". In Hatami, Hamed; McKenzie, Pierre; King, Valerie (eds.). Proceedings...
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Clifford algebra (redirect from Clifford number)
references to Schönberg's papers of 1956 and 1957 as described in section "The Grassmann–Schönberg algebra Gn" of Bolivar 2001 See for ex. Oziewicz & Sitarczyk...
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Multivector (section Grassmann coordinates)
have properties similar to the homogeneous coordinates of points, called Grassmann coordinates. Points in a real projective space Pn are defined to be lines...
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product come from Grassmann, while the words scalar, vector, scalar product, and vector product came from Hamilton. The disciples of Grassmann, in other ways...
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British mathematician and philosopher. Building on the work of Hermann Grassmann, he introduced what is now termed geometric algebra, a special case of...
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