Felix Klein
1849 – 1925 · aged 76
German mathematician, author of the Erlangen Program (1849-1925)
- Born
- 25 Apr 1849 · Düsseldorf
- Died
- 22 Jun 1925 · Göttingen
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- 25 Apr 1849BornBorn in Düsseldorf
- 1870 – 1871WarFranco-Prussian War
- 1876 – 1924RoleEditor
- 1885AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
- 1893AwardDe Morgan Medal
- 1897RoleChairperson
- 1898AwardBavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- 1903RoleChairperson
- 1908RoleChairperson
- 1908 – 1918RoleMember of the Prussian House of Lords
- 1912AwardCopley Medal
- 1914AwardAckermann–Teubner Memorial Award
- 1923AwardPour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
- 22 Jun 1925DiedDied in Göttingen
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- 1853 – 1856Crimean War
- 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
Biography
Felix Christian Klein (German: [klaɪn]; 25 April 1849 – 22 June 1925) was a German mathematician, mathematics educator and historian of mathematics, known for his work in group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and the associations between geometry and group theory. His 1872 Erlangen program classified geometries by their basic symmetry groups and was an influential synthesis of much of the mathematics of the time.
During his tenure at the University of Göttingen, Klein was able to turn it into a center for mathematical and scientific research through the establishment of new lectures, professorships, and institutes. His seminars covered most areas of mathematics then known as well as their applications. Klein also devoted considerable time to mathematical instruction and promoted mathematics education reform at all grade levels in Germany and abroad. He became the first president of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction in 1908 at the Fourth International Congress of Mathematicians in Rome.
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