The Mathematician Sophus Lie
Subtitle: It was the Audacity of My Thinking
By: by Arild Stubhaug
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 555
ISBN-13: 9783642075704; 9783662043868
Subjects: Mathematics; Science (General); Physics; Computer science
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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Table of contents: title: The Measure and the Goal of a Life; title: Family Background and Upbringing; title: School and Education; title: In Tune with the Times; title: Professor in Christiania; title: Professor in Leipzig; title: At the End of the Road; title: Appendices.