Felix Klein - Definition and Overview

Felix Christian Klein (April 25, 1849 – June 22, 1925) was a German mathematician.

Klein was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. He was a professor at the Universities of Erlangen, Munich, Leipzig and finally Göttingen, teaching mathematics. His major topics were non-Euclidean geometry, group theory and function theory. His enunciation of the Erlangen programme classifying geometries by their underlying group of symmetries was hugely influential: a synthesis of much of the mathematics of its time.

He died in Göttingen.

See also

• Klein bottle
• Klein four-group
• Klein quartic
• Kleinian group

Further reading

• Mumford, David, Carol Series, David Wright, Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein, Cambridge University Press; (May 2002)

External links

• Biography of Felix Klein (http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Klein.html)
• Klein's Web Pages (http://klein.math.okstate.edu/)