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(2011) From Past to Future: Graßmann's Work in Context, Dordrecht, Springer.
Calculation and emotion
Hermann Grassmann and Gustav Jacobsthal's musicology
Peter Sühring
pp. 391-400
It is quite remarkable that for many generations and in many different genealogical lines of the Jacobsthal's family clan of academics, scholars dedicated their energy to three specific disciplines: medicine, mathematics, and music.1 This essay aims to ana- lyze the connections between mathematics and music as they appear in the intellectual history and biography of a Stettin pupil of Hermann Grassmann: Gustav Jacobsthal. Jacobsthal's sonWalther was noted in his day for being a competent mathematician and headmaster of a school in Berlin, while his nephew Ernst Jacobsthal became a very well- known mathematician.
Publication details
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0346-0405-5_34
Full citation:
Sühring, P. (2011)., Calculation and emotion: Hermann Grassmann and Gustav Jacobsthal's musicology, in S. Russ & J. Liesen (eds.), From Past to Future: Graßmann's Work in Context, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 391-400.