2002 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Family Tree
Author : Arild Stubhaug
Published in: The Mathematician Sophus Lie
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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On the paternal side, Sophus Lie’s family tree stems from a certain Peder Lauridtzen of Streømsø in what is today the city of Drammen, west of Oslo. The sixty year-old Peder Lauridtzen is described in the census for 1665 as a beach dweller; in other words, he was far from being a member of the merchant bourgeoisie, and one might surmise, was a type of crofter who fished the fjord with a small boat.