Sophus
Proper noun
Meaning
Sophus
A male given name from Ancient Greek.
Examples
Alfred Werner Following this theory, Danish scientist Sophus Mads Jorgensen made improvements to it.
Early history According to the most authoritative source on the early history of Lie groups (Hawkins, p. 1), Sophus Lie himself considered the winter of 1873–1874 as the birth date of his theory of continuous groups.
At the end of 1872, Sophus Lie proposed to Anna Birch, then eighteen years old, and they were married in 1874.
Sophus Bugge theorized that the name Ratatoskr is a loanword from Old English meaning " Rat -tooth."
Sophus Bugge (1902) read part of the inscription as ᚢᛁᚿ᛫(ᛚ)ᛆ(ᛐ)ᛁᚭ᛫ᛁᛌᛆ uin (l)a(t)ią isa Vínlandi á ísa "from Vinland over ice".
Further advancing these ideas, Sophus Lie founded the study of Lie groups in 1884.