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Marius Sophus Lie (1842–1899) was a Norwegian mathematician and university teacher. He worked in the fields of group theory, geometry, and symmetry. Lie was educated at the University of Oslo and Hartvig Nissen School. He held positions at Leipzig University and the University of Oslo. His professional work locations included Leipzig, Paris, and Christiania.
Lie received the Lobachevsky Prize and was a member of the Royal Society, the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree under the supervision of Carl Anton Bjerknes and Cato Maximilian Guldberg. His doctoral students included Élie Cartan, Gerhard Kowalewski, Kazimierz Żorawski, and Hans Frederick Blichfeldt. He spoke Norwegian and German. Lie was born in Nordfjordeid and died in Christiania, where he is buried at Vår Frelsers gravlund.
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Key facts
- Born
- Marius Sophus Lie , ( 1842-12-17 ) 17 December 1842, Nordfjordeid , Norway
- Died
- 18 February 1899 (1899-02-18) (aged 56), Kristiania , Norway
- Alma mater
- Royal Frederick University
- Awards
- Lobachevsky Medal (1897), ForMemRS (1895)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- Royal Frederick University , University of Leipzig
- Doctoral advisor
- Carl Anton Bjerknes , Cato Maximilian Guldberg
- Doctoral students
- Hans Blichfeldt , Lucjan Emil Böttcher , Gerhard Kowalewski , Kazimierz Żorawski , Élie Cartan , Elling Holst , Edgar Odell Lovett
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Norway
- Place of birth
- Nordfjordeid
- Place of death
- Christiania
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Hartvig Nissen School
- Employer
- University of Oslo
- Languages spoken
- German
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Cato Maximilian Guldberg
- Doctoral student
- Lucjan Böttcher
- Field of work
- symmetry
- Image
- Portrett av Sophus Lie.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
- Work location
- Christiania
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- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- date of birth
- 1842-12-17
- date of death
- 1899-02-18
- Commons category
- Sophus Lie
- place of burial
- Vår Frelsers gravlund
- Commons gallery
- Sophus Lie
- birth name
- Marius Sophus Lie
- name in native language
- Marius Sophus Lie
- student
- Friedrich Engel
- medical condition
- pernicious anemia
- P6944
- Sophus Lie
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- significant person
- Ernst Motzfeldt
- archives at
- Leipzig University Library
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Encyclopedic overview
Marius Sophus Lie (/liː/ LEE; Norwegian: [liː]; 17 December 1842 – 18 February 1899) was a Norwegian mathematician. He largely created the theory of continuous symmetry and applied it to the study of geometry and differential equations. He also made substantial contributions to the development of algebra.
Life and career
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