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Nov 24, 1879 Beawar, Rajasthan, India Died on 31 Jan 1934 (aged 54)
Scottish mathematician
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About Duncan Sommerville
- Prof 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. 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.
