Sophus Lie, Friedrich Engel and the Riemann-Helmholtz problem

Joel Merker (1)

1 DMA - Département de Mathématiques et Applications - ENS Paris

A focused modernization of Sophus Lie's brilliant writings about the foundations of geometry that every contemporary geometer should have at least once a look at. Translated, updated, commented.

Domaines: Histoire et perspectives sur les mathématiques [math.HO]; Géométrie différentielle [math.DG]

Joel Merker. Sophus Lie, Friedrich Engel and the Riemann-Helmholtz problem. 2010. ⟨hal-00464599⟩