Felix Christian Klein
1849 - 1925
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Klein's synthesis of geometry as the study of the properties of a space that are invariant under a given group of transformations, known as the Erlanger Programm, profoundly influenced mathematical development.
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| Honours awarded to Felix Klein (Click below for those honoured in this way) | |
| LMS Honorary Member | 1875 |
| Fellow of the Royal Society | 1885 |
| LMS De Morgan Medal | 1893 |
| Speaker at International Congress | 1897 |
| Royal Society Copley Medal | 1912 |
| DVR Honorary Member | 1924 |
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- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Munich Germany (A biography in German)
- Minnesota (A Klein bottle rotated in 3 and 4 dimensional space)
- Mathematical Genealogy Project
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