Quotes by Felix Klein

About Felix Klein:

Christian Felix Klein was a German mathematician and mathematics educator, 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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The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the smooth infinitesimal calculus, although the eighteenth century shyness toward it had long lost all point.

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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

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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 Klein

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameFelix Klein
  • DescriptionGerman mathematician, author of the Erlangen Program
  • AliasesChristian Felix Klein
  • BornApril 25, 1849
  • DiedJune 22, 1925
  • CountryGerman Confederation; German Empire; Weimar Republic
  • ProfessionMathematician; Historian Of Mathematics
  • AwardsCopley Medal; Order Of Merit For Arts And Science