Debating Grassmann’s Mathematics: Schlegel vs. Klein

David E. Rowe
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David E. Rowe: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Institut für Mathematik

Chapter 9 in A Richer Picture of Mathematics, 2018, pp 95-103 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Mathematical fame can be a fickle thing, little more enduring than its mundane counterparts, success and recognition. Sometimes it sticks, but for odd or obscure reasons. Take the case of a largely forgotten figure named Victor Schlegel (1843–1905): googling for “Schlegel diagrams” immediately brings up scads of colored graphics depicting plane projections of 4-dimensional polyhedra. None that I found, however, could compare with the figures that appear in a little-known paper (Schlegel 1883). It seems these figures are aptly named, but how and when they came to be called Schlegel diagrams remains a mystery (see also (Schlegel 1886)). In fact, clicking through Wikipedia, MacTutor, and their progeny for Victor Schlegel turns up nothing; nor does he appear in standard compendia, like the Lexikon bedeutender Mathematiker.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67819-1_9

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