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Marius Sophus Lie

The life of Marius Sophus Lie - Midnight Epiphany and Stolen Legacy


Lie Bracket / Lie Algebra

An algebraic structure essential to the study of continuous transformations.

\[ [x, [y, z]] + [y, [z, x]] + [z, [x, y]] = 0 \]

Sources: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lie/

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