(Marius) Sophus Lie
1842-1899
Norwegian mathematician who developed the mathematical formalism known as Lie algebra and made significant contributions in the area of differential and partial different...
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Marius Sophus Lie was one of the first prominent Norwegian scientists and among the last of the great 19th-century mathematicians. His main contribution was his theory of groups. Lie groupsand Lie alg...
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Marius Sophus Lie was the youngest of many children of a Lutheran pastor. Lie's education was uneventful and though he studied mathematics and science at the University at Christiania (now Oslo) he gr...
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