Prof Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville FRSE FRAS (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.
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24 November 1879 Beawar, Rajputana, India
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Died |
31 January 1934 (aged 54) Wellington, New Zealand
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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