Felix Klein
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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
Born
25 April 1849 Düsseldorf, Rhine, Prussia, Germany
Died
22 June 1925 (aged 76) Göttingen, Hanover, Prussia, Germany
Nationality
German
Known for
Erlangen program Klein bottle Beltrami–Klein model Klein's Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences
Fields
Mathematics
Alma mater
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Awards
De Morgan Medal (1893) Copley Medal (1912) Ackermann–Teubner Memorial Award (1914)
Institutions
Universität Erlangen Technische Hochschule München Universität Leipzig Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
adultbasic
Germany
Doctoral advisors
Julius Plücker and Rudolf Lipschitz
Doctoral students
List Ludwig Bieberbach Maxime Bôcher Oskar Bolza Max Brückner Frank Nelson Cole Friedrich Dingeldey Henry B. Fine Erwin Freundlich Robert Fricke Philipp Furtwängler Axel Harnack Mellen Haskell Adolf Hurwitz
era
1800+
Other notable students
Edward Kasner