An Algebra of Pieces of Space -- Hermann Grassmann to Gian Carlo Rota
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Publication:6213630
DOI10.1007/978-0-387-88753-1_5arXiv0904.3349MaRDI QIDQ6213630FDOQ6213630
Authors: Henry Crapo 
Publication date: 21 April 2009
Abstract: We sketch the outlines of Gian Carlo Rota's interaction with the ideas that Hermann Grassmann developed in his Ausdehnungslehre of 1844 and 1862, as adapted and explained by Giuseppe Peano in 1888. This leads us past what Rota variously called 'Grassmann-Cayley algebra', or 'Peano spaces', to the Whitney algebra of a matroid, and finally to a resolution of the question "What, really, was Grassmann's regressive product?". This final question is the subject of ongoing joint work with Andrea Brini, Francesco Regonati, and William Schmitt. The present paper was presented at the conference "The Digital Footprint of Gian-Carlo Rota: Marbles, Boxes and Philosophy" in Milano on 17 Feb 2009. It will appear in proceedings of that conference, to be published by Springer Verlag.
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