Timeline for Grassmann's "general theory of forms": an appropriate question for MathOverflow?
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| Jun 9, 2014 at 1:11 | comment | added | bzm3r | Thanks a lot for this constructive answer. I will put some effort into doing some proper research on the matter, and maybe in the end, I will end up finding what you suspect. If not, I will then at least be able to post a better MO question. | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 1:06 | vote | accept | bzm3r | ||
| Jun 8, 2014 at 20:11 | comment | added | The Masked Avenger | I don't say that you are misunderstanding the passage so much as putting too much hope in the generality. If you axiomatize exterior algebras, you will have a more general framework, which won't buy you much unless you take a model-theoretic or mathematical-logic perspective: the structures you study will still smell like exterior algebras with that axiomatization. | |
| Jun 8, 2014 at 20:04 | history | answered | The Masked Avenger | CC BY-SA 3.0 |