Mathematik
Klein, Christian Felix
Vergleichende betrachtungen über neure geometrische Forschungen. Erlangen, A. Deichert, 1872. 48 S. Brosch.
DSB. 7, 396-400. I. Grattan-Guinness, 'Norton Hist. Math. Sciences', 1998, 547-548. - Diese Abhandlung aus dem Jahr 1872 wurde an die Teilnehmer von Kleins Antrittsrede anlässlich seiner Ernennung im Alter von dreiundzwanzig Jahren zum ordentlichen Professor für Mathematik in Erlangen im Herbst 1872 verteilt. Im Jahr 1893 druckte Klein sie in seinen "Mathematischen Annalen" ab, wo sie große Beachtung fand.
Mathematics. - "Klein's Erlangen Program was his review of contemporary methods in geometry. It became, some 20 years later, the work from which a new generation of mathematicians came to see how geometry was being done and to appreciate the importance of group theory in the study of geometry. The reason for this delay, and also for its subsequent and continuing impact, was the novelty with which Klein re-united the disparate fields of geometry through his emphasis on the role of groups in geometric transformations." (Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics, Chap. 42)
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