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Sophus Lie

1842 - 1899

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Marius Sophus Lie ( 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sophus Lie has received more than 333,536 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Sophus Lie is the 135th most popular mathematician (up from 144th in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from Norway (up from 47th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Norwegian Mathematician.

Sophus Lie was a Norwegian mathematician who is most famous for the theory of continuous groups.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Sophus Lie ranks 135 out of 1,004. Before him are Étienne Bézout, Colin Maclaurin, Hermann of Reichenau, Lodovico Ferrari, Jacques Hadamard, and Aloysius Lilius. After him are Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Oliver Heaviside, Ernst Kummer, William Oughtred, Vincenzo Viviani, and Harald Bohr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Sophus Lie ranks 22. Before him are Arrigo Boito, Georg Brandes, Vasily Vereshchagin, Giovanni Giolitti, James Dewar, and Ambrose Bierce. After him are Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Carl von Linde, Osborne Reynolds, Édouard Lucas, Arkhip Kuindzhi, and Jean Gaston Darboux. Among people deceased in 1899, Sophus Lie ranks 9. Before him are Robert Bunsen, Leo von Caprivi, Félix Faure, Rosa Bonheur, Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma, and Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia. After him are Paul Reuter, Ernest Chausson, Giovanni Segantini, Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, Nubar Pasha, and Aristide Cavaillé-Coll.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Sophus Lie ranks 44 out of 1,039. Before him are Haakon the Good (918), Lars Onsager (1903), Magnus the Good (1024), Gustav Vigeland (1869), Haakon IV of Norway (1204), and Trygve Haavelmo (1911). After him are Ivar Giaever (1929), Oda Krohg (1860), Johan Halvorsen (1864), Haakon Sigurdsson (930), Olaf III of Norway (1050), and Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner (1932).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Norway

Among mathematicians born in Norway, Sophus Lie ranks 2. Before him are Niels Henrik Abel (1802). After him are Atle Selberg (1917), Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow (1832), Caspar Wessel (1745), Viggo Brun (1885), Cato Maximilian Guldberg (1836), Thoralf Skolem (1887), Bernt Michael Holmboe (1795), Axel Thue (1863), Carl Størmer (1874), and Øystein Ore (1899).

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