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The Mathematician Sophus Lie: It was the Audacity of My Thinking

By Arild Stubhaug (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2002
ISBN
978-3-642-07570-4, 978-3-662-04386-8
DOI
10.1007/978-3-662-04386-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (18970759 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
555\555
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
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Description

Sophus Lie (1842-1899) is without doubt one of Norway's greatest scientific talents. His mathematical works have made him famous around the world no less than Niels Henrik Abel. The terms Lie groups and Lie algebra are today part of the standard mathematical vocabulary. In his comprehensive biography the author Arild Stubhaug let us come close to both the person Sophus Lie and his time. We follow him through childhood at the vicarage in Nordfjordeid, his growing up in Moss, school and studying in Christiania, travelling in Europe and his contacts with the leading mathematicians of his time. The academic and scientific career brought Lie from Christiania to Leipzig as professor, before the attempt to call him back to Norway, when she stood on the threshhold to national sovereignty, was successful.

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