Lie (disambiguation)
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The word Lie can have several meanings:
- Lie v., to speak untruthfully with intent to mislead or deceive
- Lie n., an untrue or deceptive statement deliberately used to mislead
- Lie or lie down intr.v., to rest or recline horizontally on a surface; see Human positions.
- Lie, a recording by career criminal Charles Manson
- LIE, the International Olympic Committee's abbreviation for Liechtenstein
- LIE, the abbreviation for the Long Island Expressway, Interstate 495
- L.I.E., a movie titled after the Long Island Expressway
The word "lie" often causes ambiguities in foreign language dictionaries, when the foreign language word is defined as "lie" without distinguishing between "tell a lie" and "lie down".
See also lye.
Lie (pronounced "Lee"), a family name; notable persons with this name include:
- Sophus Lie (1842-1899), Norwegian mathematician, the discoverer of Lie algebras and Lie groups
- Trygve Lie (1896-1968), Norwegian politician, first Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Jonas Lie (1833-1908), Norwegian novelist
- Jonas Lie (painter) (1880-1940), Norwegian-American painter
The theory devised by Sophus Lie includes the following types of object:
- Lie algebra
- Lie group
- Linear algebraic group
- Group of Lie type
- Universal enveloping algebra
- Coxeter groups/Weyl groups
- Root system and Root datum of Lie algebras.
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