Duncan Sommerville
Scottish mathematician
Died when: 54 years 68 days (650 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
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.
Sommerville was also an accomplished watercolourist, producing a series New Zealand landscapes.The middle name 'MacLaren' is spelt using the old orthography M'Laren in some sources, for example the records of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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