Ernst Thalmann
German communist politician, leader of Communist Party of Germany
Felix Klein
German mathematician, author of the Erlangen Program (1849-1925)
Felix Christian Kleinwas a German mathematician and mathematics educator, 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.
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About the Felix Klein
Felix Christian Kleinwas a German mathematician and mathematics educator, 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 Gottingen, 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.
4 Quotes by Felix Klein
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Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
Felix KleinGerman mathematician, author of the Erlangen Program (1849-1925)
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
Felix KleinGerman mathematician, author of the Erlangen Program (1849-1925)
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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
Felix KleinGerman mathematician, author of the Erlangen Program (1849-1925)
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The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.
Felix KleinGerman mathematician, author of the Erlangen Program (1849-1925)