93,758 profiles ranked live

Duncan Sommerville

✓ Source-basedrising

Scottish mathematician (1879-1934)

New ZealandAcademicsLived 1879 to 1934 · aged 54
Compare
Fame40.6
Momentum12.0
Languages8
In century#163,429

Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville (1879-1934) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. He compiled a bibliography on non-Euclidean geometry and also wrote a leading textbook in that field. He also wrote Introduction to the Geometry of N Dimensions, advancing the study of polytopes.

Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Photos 2

Awards 4

1928Hector Medal
1922Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society

Connected to Duncan 6

About this person

Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville (1879-1934) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. He compiled a bibliography on non-Euclidean geometry and also wrote a leading textbook in that field. He also wrote Introduction to the Geometry of N Dimensions, advancing the study of polytopes. He was a co-founder and the first secretary of the New Zealand Astronomical Society.

Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Country
New Zealand
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1879 to 1934 · aged 54
Wikipedia
8 languages

Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.