
German polymath, linguist and mathematician (1809–1877)
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1878 copy of Grassmann's "Die lineale Ausdehnungslehre" First page of "Die lineale Ausdehnungslehre" Hermann Günther Grassmann (German: Graßmann, pronounced [ˈhɛʁman ˈɡʏntɐ ˈɡʁasman]; 15 April 1809 – 26 September 1877) was a German polymath known in his day as a linguist and now also as a mathematician. He was also a physicist, general scholar, and publisher. His mathematical work was little noted until he was in his sixties. His work preceded and exceeded the concept which is now known as a vector space. He introduced the Grassmannian, the space which parameterizes all k-dimensional linear subspaces of an n-dimensional vector space V. In linguistics he helped free language history and structure from each other.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).