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Anna Birch gave Sophus Lie her yes on Christmas Eve 1872, when he visited her parents’ home in Risør. Her only condition was that for a period of time their engagement must be secret — by way of justification she claimed that she thought she was too young to commit herself.
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Stubhaug, A. (2002). “My Inner Life Has Been Most Mighty”. In: The Mathematician Sophus Lie. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04386-8_12
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