Felix Klein

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German mathematician human mathematician

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.

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	German mathematician → human → mathematician →
awardReceived	Copley Medal → Lobachevsky Prize →
countryOfCitizenship	German Empire → Germany → 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	Leipzig University → Technische Hochschule München → 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 → Lectures on the Icosahedron →
placeOfBirth	Düsseldorf →
placeOfDeath	Göttingen →
positionHeld	professor of mathematics →
sexOrGender	male →

Referenced by (25)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alfred Clebsch → Bernhard Riemann → Friedrich Bernhard Riemann → Sophus Lie →	influenced
Alfred Clebsch → Julius Plücker → Paul Gordan →	notableStudent
Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint → Erlangen Program →	author
Felix Bernstein → Ferdinand von Lindemann →	doctoralAdvisor
Ackermann–Teubner Memorial Award → Helmholtz Medal →	hasRecipient
John von Neumann → Wilhelm Wirtinger →	influencedBy
Julius Plücker →	hasInfluenced
Humboldt University of Berlin →	hasNotableAlumni
Klein quartic →	namedAfter
University of Göttingen →	notableAssociatedScientist
Klein →	notableBearer
Prussian Academy of Sciences →	notableMember
Ackermann–Teubner Memorial Award →	notableRecipient
Erlangen Program →	proposedBy
Paul Gordan →	student
Felix Bernstein →	studentOf