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FELIX KLEIN, who was born at Düsseldorf on April 25, 1849, died on June 22, 1925. He had been professor at Gottingen since Easter 1886, having previously been at Erlangen (1872-1875), Munich (1875-188o), and Leipzig (1880-1886). With a trenchant expository style, revealing a forceful genial character, he wrote on almost every branch of mathematics; he was editor of the Mathem. Annal. from the time of the death of Clebsch (1872), originator of the “Enzyklo padie” for mathematics and mathematical physics (from 1895), and, in his own country, worked incessantly for a living co-operation of physics, engineering, and mathematics, and (since 1908) to bring the teaching in the schools into touch with current scientific problems. He was also a constant traveller and lecturer; was twice in America and many times in England, since 1873. His exceptional personality appeared at once after his student days at Bonn; he took his doctor's degree at the age of nineteen; issued the secoi part of Plücker's book on line-geometry at the age of twenty; by the end of 1871, when he was twenty-two, had published eighteen original papers (some of these with Lie); by the end of 1875 he had published forty. Many of these are still mines of suggestiveness; his Erlanger Programm (1872) has been translated into English, French, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Hungarian.
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Prof. Felix Klein, For. Mem. R.S.. Nature 116, 475–476 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116475a0
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