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Emergence of the Theory of Lie Groups: An Essay in the History of Mathematics 1869-1926

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Emergence of the Theory of Lie Groups: An Essay in the History of Mathematics 1869-1926 - Hawkins, Thomas
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The great Norwegian mathematician Sophus Lie developed the general theory of transformations in the 1870s, and the first part of the book properly focuses on his work. In the second part the central figure is Wilhelm Killing, who developed structure and classification of semisimple Lie algebras. The third part focuses on the developments of the representation of Lie algebras, in particular the work of Elie Cartan. The book concludes with the work of Hermann Weyl and his contemporaries on the structure and representation of ...

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Emergence of the Theory of Lie Groups: An Essay in the History of Mathematics 1869-1926 2012, Springer, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9781461270423

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Emergence of the Theory of Lie Groups: An Essay in the History of Mathematics 1869-1926 2000, Springer, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780387989631

2000 edition

Hardcover