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The Development of Geometrical Methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

G. Darboux
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Among those who have contributed to the development of Infinitesimal Geometry, Sophus Lie is distinguished by several important discoveries which place him in the first rank. He was not one of those who showed from childhood a very marked aptitude, and when he was leaving the University of Christiania in 1865, he was still hesitating between Philology and Mathematics. It was Plücker’s works which made him fully conscious for the first time of his vocation. He published, in 1869, his first paper on the interpretation of imaginaries in Geometry, and by 1970 he was in possession of the ideas which guided the whole of his career.

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 3 , Issue 51 , May 1905 , pp. 169 - 173
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1905 

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page 172 note * Professor Simon Ncwcomb.