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This is how one or two people propagandized Graßmann's ideas in the mathematical community: through their lectures, their writings, their students; through editorial policy (Clebsch and Klein in the Mathematische Annalen, Klein in the Encyklopädie der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, and Graßmann's collected works under Klein's impetus); and through tours (Klein in Chicago in 1893). The ideas are line elements (vectors), plane elements and bundles of lines; \(n\)-dimensional manifolds; geometry through algebra and numbers (complex numbers, hypercomplex numbers) rather than Steiner's synthesis; mappings of spaces, of cubic curves in the plane, of quartic curves; determinants associated with mappings, classification into projective, affine, metric geometry; with an emphasis on system and order. Clebsch was in Göttingen; Klein came to Graßmann earlier, and to Göttingen later after Clebsch's death. Their colleagues and students, among them Alexander Brill, Ernst Schering, Franz Meyer, Paul Gordan, Ferdinand Lindemann, caried these ideas into geometry, algebra, the theory of invariants, algebraic geometry, topology, quickly and easily. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0853.00027].

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