The Mathematician Sophus Lie: It was the Audacity of My Thinking / Edition 1

The Mathematician Sophus Lie: It was the Audacity of My Thinking / Edition 1

by Arild Stubhaug, R. Daly
ISBN-10:
3540421378
ISBN-13:
9783540421375
Pub. Date:
01/10/2002
Publisher:
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
ISBN-10:
3540421378
ISBN-13:
9783540421375
Pub. Date:
01/10/2002
Publisher:
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
The Mathematician Sophus Lie: It was the Audacity of My Thinking / Edition 1

The Mathematician Sophus Lie: It was the Audacity of My Thinking / Edition 1

by Arild Stubhaug, R. Daly
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Overview

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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ISBN-13: 9783540421375
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date: 01/10/2002
Edition description: 2002
Pages: 555
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.05(d)

Table of Contents

I The Measure of a Life.- Tracking Him Down: A Torrent of Stories.- II Family Background and Upbringing.- The Family Tree.- The Priestly Family at Nordfjordeid.- Father’s Home in Moss.- III School and Education.- Nissen’s School. Examen Artium.- Student Life.- The Lack of a Calling.- IV In Tune with the Times.- Into Mathematical History.- There was a Mathematician in Him.- The First Tour Abroad.- Parliamentary Professor.- V Professor in Christiania.- “My Inner Life Has Been Most Mighty”.- “My Life’s Good Fortune”.- Marriage at Last.- Herr Professor mit seiner Gemahlin.- In the Lee of “the Modern Breakthrough”.- A Steady Stream of Works.- The Mathematical Milieu at Home and Abroad.- “It is Lonely, Terribly Lonely”.- Summoned to Leipzig.- VI Professor in Leipzig.- The Coming Period: A More Difficult Balancing Act.- In the Big City of Leipzig.- Breakdown.- Fame.- Conflicts.- Norwegian Students.- Back to Norway.- VII At the End of the Road.- The Final Years.- Appendices.- Chronology.- Notes and Commentaries.- Sophus Lie’s Descendants.- Chronological Bibliography of Sophus Lie’s Published Works.- Acknowledgements.- List of Literature.- Index of Names.
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