Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville
1879 - 1934
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Duncan Sommerville studied at St Andrews and then had a post as a lecturer there. He left to become Professor of Pure and Applied mathematics at Victoria College, Wellington New Zealand. He worked on non-Euclidean geometry and the History of Mathematics. He became President of the EMS in 1911.
Mathematicians born in the same country
Additional Material in MacTutor
- Papers in the Proceedings and Notes of the EMS
- Sommerville's Geometry of n dimensions
- Obituary: EMS Proceedings
| Honours awarded to Duncan Sommerville (Click below for those honoured in this way) | |
| EMS President | 1911 |
| Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | 1911 |
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