Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
Felix Klein Quotes
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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| Birth: | 25th April, 1849 |
| Death: | 22nd June, 1925 |
| Nationality: | German |
| Profession: | Mathematician |
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Christian Felix Klein was a German mathematician, known for his work in group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the connections between geometry and group theory. His 1872 Erlangen Program, classifying geometries by their underlying symmetry groups, was a hugely influential synthesis of much of the mathematics of the day
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