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

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This book is in the Springer seriesSources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences .

Continued from the back cover: "The first part describes the geometrical and analytical considerations that initiated the theory at the hands of the Norwegian mathematician, Sophus Lie. The main figure in the second part is Weierstarss's student Wilhelm Killing, whose interest in the foundations of non-Euclidean geometry led to his discover of almost all the central concepts and theorems on the structure and classification of semisimple Li algebras. The scene then shits to the Paris mathematical community and Élie Cartan's work on the representation of Lie algebras. The final part describes the influential, unifying contributions of Hermann Weyl and their context: Hilbert's Göttingen, general relativity, and the Forbenius-Schur theory of characters.

"The book is written with the conviction that mathematical understanding is deepened by familiarity with underlying motivations and the less formal, more intuitive manner of original conception. The human side of the story is evoked through extensive use of correspondence between mathematicians. The book should prove enlightening to a broad range of readers, including prospective students of Lie theory, mathematicians, physicists, and historians and philosophers of science."

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