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Also Known As Marius Sophus Lie
Born December 17, 1842 • Norway
Died February 18, 1899 (aged 56) • Oslo • Norway
Subjects Of Study Lie group • differential equation • invariant

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Sophus Lie, detail of an engraving c. 1885.
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Évariste Galois, detail of an engraving, 1848, after a drawing by Alfred Galois.
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David Hilbert
German mathematician
Arthur Cayley, detail of an oil painting by W.H. Longmaid, 1884; in the collection of Trinity College, Cambridge, England.
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British mathematician
Paul Painlevé.
Paul Painlevé
French prime minister and mathematician
James Joseph Sylvester
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John Vincent Atanasoff
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Jesse Douglas
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Felix Klein
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John Griggs Thompson
John Griggs Thompson
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Joseph Bertrand
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Georg Frobenius
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Camille Jordan
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David Mumford
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Jacques Tits
Jacques Tits
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Élie-Joseph Cartan
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Gregory Margulis
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Efim Zelmanov
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Jean Dieudonné
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Herbert Westren Turnbull
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Leonard Eugene Dickson
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