Marius Sophus Lie (1842 - 1899)

* 17 December 1842, † 18 February 1899

Marius Sophus Lie was born on 17 December 1842 in Nordfjordeide, Norway. Sophus Lie was a Norwegian mathematician who made major advances in the theory of continuous groups of transformations and differential equations. Lie groups and Lie algebras are named after him. Marius Sophus Lie died on 18 February 1899 in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway.