Duncan Sommerville, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Duncan Sommerville

Scottish mathematician

Date of Birth: 24-Nov-1879

Place of Birth: Beawar, Rajasthan, India

Date of Death: 31-Jan-1934

Profession: astronomer, mathematician, historian, painter

Nationality: New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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.