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Felix Christian Klein (April 25, 1849 – June 22, 1925) was a
German mathematician.
Klein was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. He was a professor at the
Universities of Erlangen, Munich,
Leipzig and finally Göttingen,
teaching mathematics. His major topics were non-Euclidean geometry, group theory and function theory. His enunciation
of the Erlangen programme classifying geometries by their
underlying group of symmetries was hugely influential: a
synthesis of much of the mathematics of its time.
He died in Göttingen.
See also:
Further Reading:
- Mumford, David, Carol Series, David Wright, Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein, Cambridge University Press;
(May 2002)
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