Sophus Lie

Sophus Lie

male, deceased (1899)
differential equations, Royal Society, London Mathematical Society, Lie algebra, geometry, norwegian…Group theorist, Liegroup, Marius Sophus Lie, group law
Marius Sophus Lie (December 17, 1842 - February 18, 1899) was a Norwegian-born mathematician. He largely created the theory of continuous symmetry,...

Jeffrey Adams

male
University of Maryland, Arthur's conjectures, unitary representation, Langlands classification, Atlas of Lie groups and representations, Liegroup
Jeffrey Adams is a mathematician at the University of Maryland who works on unitary representations of reductive Lie groups, and who led the...
Armand Borel

Armand Borel

male, deceased (2003)
G/P, G/H, parabolic subgroups, classifying space, solvable subgroup, solvable group…algebraic group, linear algebraic group, arithmetic group, Liegroup
Armand Borel was a Swiss mathematician, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, and was a permanent professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,...
Bertram Kostant

Bertram Kostant

male
Lie algebra, mathematician, Institute for Advanced Study, MIT, homogeneous space, Liegroup
Bertram Kostant is a leading American mathematician. Kostant grew up in New York City, where he graduated from the celebrated Stuyvesant High...

Élie Cartan

male, deceased (1951)
Fellow of the Royal Society, mathematician, Alumni of the École Normale Supérieure, Differential geometer, French, mathematical physics…group theory, Liegroup
Élie Joseph Cartan was an influential French mathematician, who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups and their geometric applications. H...
Wilhelm Killing

Wilhelm Killing

male, deceased (1923)
Elie Cartan, root system, Cartan matrix, Cartan subalgebra, Wilhelm Karl Joseph Killing, simple Lie algebra…Lie algebra, Liegroup
Wilhelm Karl Joseph Killing was a German mathematician who made important contributions to the theories of Lie algebras, Lie groups, and...
Raoul Bott

Raoul Bott

male, deceased (2005)
Canadian Forces, topologist, University of Michigan, World War II, Canadian Army, Ph.D.…Liegroup
Raoul Bott, FRS (born September 24 1923, died December 20 2005) was a mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad...

John McKay

male, 70 years old
mathematician, CRM-Fields Prize, monstrous moonshine, McKay correspondence, sporadic simple group, Liegroup…Group theorist, finite group
John McKay (born 1939) is a mathematician at Concordia University in Canada, known for his discovery of monstrous moonshine, his joint construction...
Claude Chevalley

Claude Chevalley

male, deceased (1984)
sporadic groups, algebraic groups, classification of finite simple groups, algebraic geometry, number theory, simple group…Liegroup, Lie algebra, group cohomology, Chevalley group
Claude Chevalley was a French mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic...

Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh

male, deceased (2000)
Princeton University, Syracuse University, physicist, Irish, Particle physics, University College Dublin…Liegroup
Lochlainn O’Raifeartaigh was an Irish physicist of world-wide repute in the field of theoretical particle physics. He is best known for the O'...