Sommerville

Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville

Born: 24 Nov 1879 in Beawar, Rajasthan, India
Died: 31 Jan 1934 in Wellington, New Zealand

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Sommerville was educated at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and taught there from 1902 to 1914. He worked on non-euclidean geometry and the history of mathematics. He proved in 1905 that there are eleven Archimedian tilings.

In 1911 he published Bibliography of non-Euclidean Geometry, including the Theory of Parallels, the Foundations of Geometry and Space of n Dimensions. There are 1832 references to n-dimensional geometry. In the last part of his life he worked in New Zealand.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. H W Turnbull, Professor D M Y Sommerville, Proc. Edinburgh Math. Soc. 4 (1935), 57-60. 
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