Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource(xx, 677 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9783030757854
Serie:
Vita mathematica volume 20
Inhalt:
Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Influencing groups -- 3 Professorship at the University of Erlangen -- 4 Professorship at the Polytechnikum Munich -- 5 Professorship of Geometry in Leipzig -- 6 Start as Professor in Göttingen, 1886-1892 -- Setting the course -- 8 Fruits of the efforts, 1895-1913 -- 9 World War I and post-war period -- 10 Concluding remarks -- Appendix: Selection of documents.
Inhalt:
About Felix Klein, the famous Greek mathematician Constantin Carathéodory once said: “It is only by illuminating him from all angles that one can come to understand his significance.” The author of this biography has done just this. A detailed study of original sources has made it possible to uncover new connections; to create a more precise representation of this important mathematician, scientific organizer, and educational reformer; and to identify misconceptions. Because of his edition of Julius Plücker’s work on line geometry and due to his own contributions to non-Euclidean geometry, Klein was already well known abroad before he received his first full professorship at the age of 23. By exchanging ideas with his most important cooperation partner, the Norwegian Sophus Lie, Klein formulated his Erlangen Program. Various other visionary programs followed, in which Klein involved mathematicians from Germany and abroad. Klein was the most active promoter of Riemann’s geometric-physical approach to function theory, but he also integrated the analytical approaches of the Weierstrass school into his arsenal of methods. Klein was a citizen of the world who repeatedly travelled to France, Great Britain, Italy, the United States, and elsewhere. Despite what has often been claimed, it must be emphasized that Klein expressly opposed national chauvinism. He promoted mathematically gifted individuals regardless of their nationality, religion, or gender. Many of his works have been translated into English, French, Italian, Russian, and other languages; more than 300 supporters from around the world made it possible for his portrait to be painted by the prominent impressionist Max Liebermann. Inspired by international developments, Klein paved the way for women to work in the field of mathematics. He was instrumental in reforming mathematical education, and he endorsed an understanding of mathematics that affirmed its cultural importance as well as its fundamental significance to scientific and technological progress.
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ISBN 9783030757847
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ISBN 9783030757861
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ISBN 9783030757878
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030757861
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030757878
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tobies, Renate, 1947 - Felix Klein Cham, Switzerland : Birkhäuser, 2021 ISBN 9783030757847
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Mathematik
Schlagwort(e):
Mathematik
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Klein, Felix 1849-1925
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Biografie
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-75785-4
Mehr zum Autor:
Tobies, Renate 1947-
Mehr zum Autor:
Pakis, Valentine 1978-
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