Felix Klein

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Felix Klein was a German mathematician renowned for his work in group theory, non-Euclidean geometry, and the Erlangen Program, which redefined the foundations of geometry.

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instanceOf German mathematician
human
mathematician
awardReceived Copley Medal
Lobachevsky Prize
countryOfCitizenship German Empire
Germany
Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
dateOfBirth 1849-04-25
dateOfDeath 1925-06-22
doctoralAdvisor Alfred Clebsch
Julius Plücker
doctoralStudent David Hilbert
Ernst Zermelo
Hermann Minkowski
Max Dehn
Wilhelm Wirtinger
educatedAt University of Bonn
University of Göttingen
employer University of Leipzig
surface form: Leipzig University

Technical University of Munich
surface form: Technische Hochschule München

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
surface form: University of Erlangen–Nuremberg

University of Göttingen
familyName Klein
fieldOfWork algebraic geometry
complex analysis
differential equations
function theory
geometry
group theory
mathematics
non-Euclidean geometry
givenName Felix
influenced 20th-century geometry
David Hilbert
Hermann Minkowski
influencedBy Bernhard Riemann
Évariste Galois
languageOfWorkOrName German
memberOf Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
notableIdea Erlangen Program
classification of geometries by transformation groups
notableWork Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint
Erlangen Program
Klein bottle
Klein quartic
Platonic solids
surface form: Lectures on the Icosahedron
placeOfBirth Düsseldorf
placeOfDeath Göttingen
positionHeld professor of mathematics
sexOrGender male

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John von Neumann influencedBy Felix Klein
Bernhard Riemann influenced Felix Klein
Helmholtz Medal hasRecipient Felix Klein
Sophus Lie influenced Felix Klein
Klein notableBearer Felix Klein
Paul Gordan student Felix Klein
Paul Gordan notableStudent Felix Klein
Erlangen Program author Felix Klein
Erlangen Program proposedBy Felix Klein
Klein quartic namedAfter Felix Klein
Alfred Clebsch notableStudent Felix Klein
Alfred Clebsch influenced Felix Klein
Friedrich influenced Felix Klein
subject surface form: Friedrich Bernhard Riemann
Julius Plücker hasInfluenced Felix Klein
Julius Plücker notableStudent Felix Klein
Felix Bernstein studentOf Felix Klein
Felix Bernstein doctoralAdvisor Felix Klein
Wilhelm Wirtinger influencedBy Felix Klein
Lindemann doctoralAdvisor Felix Klein
subject surface form: Ferdinand von Lindemann
Lazarus Fuchs influenced Felix Klein
Raum, Zeit, Materie influencedBy Felix Klein
Rudolf Lipschitz notableStudent Felix Klein
Marius influenced Felix Klein
subject surface form: Marius Sophus Lie
Andreas Speiser influencedBy Felix Klein
Paul Ehrenfest doctoralAdvisor Felix Klein
Enrico Betti influenced Felix Klein
Felix Klein Prize namedAfter Felix Klein
Kleinian group namedAfter Felix Klein
Precision and Approximation author Felix Klein
Adolf Hurwitz doctoralAdvisor Felix Klein
Adolf Hurwitz influencedBy Felix Klein
Hermann Grassmann influenced Felix Klein
Luigi Bianchi influencedBy Felix Klein
Antoni Łomnicki studiedUnder Felix Klein
Henry Frederick Baker influencedBy Felix Klein
Non-Euclidean Geometry developedBy Felix Klein
subject surface form: Non-Euclidean geometry