Non-euclidean geometry and Weierstrassian mathematics: The background to Killing's work on Lie algebras

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(80)90027-0zbMath0456.01015WikidataQ56851461 ScholiaQ56851461MaRDI QIDQ1150365

Thomas Hawkins

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(80)90027-0

zbMATH Keywords

Lie groups; Lie algebras; non-euclidean geometry; Wilhelm Killing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A60: History of mathematics in the 20th century

01A70: Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies

01A55: History of mathematics in the 19th century

51-03: History of geometry

22-03: History of topological groups

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