Editing 1879 in science (section)

==Mathematics==
* [[Lewis Carroll|Charles L. Dodgson]] publishes ''[[Euclid and his Modern Rivals]]'' in London.<ref>{{cite book|title=Lewis Carroll in Numberland|first=Robin|last=Wilson|authorlink=Robin Wilson (mathematician)|location=London|publisher=Allen Lane|year=2008| isbn=978-0-7139-9757-6|pages=91–95}}</ref>
* [[Gottlob Frege]] publishes ''[[Begriffsschrift]], eine der arithmetischen nachgebildete Formelsprache des reinen Denkens'' ("Concept-Script: A Formal Language for Pure Thought Modeled on that of Arithmetic") in Halle, a significant text in the development of [[mathematical logic]].
* [[Felix Klein]] first describes the [[Grünbaum–Rigby configuration]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Klein|first=Felix|doi=10.1007/BF01677143|journal=[[Mathematische Annalen]]|pages=428–471|title=Ueber die Transformation siebenter Ordnung der elliptischen Functionen|url=https://eudml.org/doc/156835|volume=14|year=1879}}. Translated into English by Silvio Levy as {{citation|contribution=On the order-seven transformation of elliptic functions|mr=1722419|pages=287–331|publisher=Cambridge University Press|series=Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications|title=The Eightfold Way|volume=35|year=1999}}</ref>