Felix Klein Quotes


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.


Citations

Klein, Felix. The Evanston Colloquium: Lectures on Mathematics. Macmillan and Co., 1894, p. 44.

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Felix Klein
Felix Klein
  • Born: April 25, 1849
  • Died: June 22, 1925
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Mathematician

Christian Felix Klein was a German mathematician and mathematics educator, known for his work with group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the associations between geometry and group theory. His 1872 Erlangen program, classifying geometries by their basic symmetry groups, was an influential synthesis of much of the mathematics of the time.