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Book The Legacy of Felix Klein

Download or read book The Legacy of Felix Klein written by Gert Schubring and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book provides an overview of Felix Klein's ideas, highlighting developments in university teaching and school mathematics related to Klein's thoughts, stemming from the last century. It discusses the meaning, importance and the legacy of Klein's ideas today and in the future, within an international, global context. Presenting extended versions of the talks at the Thematic Afternoon at ICME-13, the book shows that many of Klein's ideas can be reinterpreted in the context of the current situation, and offers tips and advice for dealing with current problems in teacher education and teaching mathematics in secondary schools. It proves that old ideas are timeless, but that it takes competent, committed and assertive individuals to bring these ideas to life. Throughout his professional life, Felix Klein emphasised the importance of reflecting upon mathematics teaching and learning from both a mathematical and a psychological or educational point of view. He also strongly promoted the modernisation of mathematics in the classroom, and developed ideas on university lectures for student teachers, which he later consolidated at the beginning of the last century in the three books on elementary mathematics from a higher standpoint. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Book Indra s Pearls

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Mumford
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2002-04-25
  • ISBN : 9780521352536
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book Indra s Pearls written by David Mumford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-25 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felix Klein, one of the great nineteenth-century geometers, rediscovered in mathematics an idea from Eastern philosophy: the heaven of Indra contained a net of pearls, each of which was reflected in its neighbour, so that the whole Universe was mirrored in each pearl. Klein studied infinitely repeated reflections and was led to forms with multiple co-existing symmetries. For a century these ideas barely existed outside the imagination of mathematicians. However in the 1980s the authors embarked on the first computer exploration of Klein's vision, and in doing so found many further extraordinary images. Join the authors on the path from basic mathematical ideas to the simple algorithms that create the delicate fractal filigrees, most of which have never appeared in print before. Beginners can follow the step-by-step instructions for writing programs that generate the images. Others can see how the images relate to ideas at the forefront of research.

Book Felix Klein

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  • Author : Renate Tobies
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2021-06-23
  • ISBN : 3030757854
  • Pages : 677 pages

Download or read book Felix Klein written by Renate Tobies and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Lectures on Mathematics

Download or read book Lectures on Mathematics written by Felix Klein and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Felix Klein and Sophus Lie

Download or read book Felix Klein and Sophus Lie written by Исаак Моисеевич Яглом and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Elementary Mathematics from a Higher Standpoint

Download or read book Elementary Mathematics from a Higher Standpoint written by Felix Klein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These three volumes constitute the first complete English translation of Felix Klein’s seminal series “Elementarmathematik vom höheren Standpunkte aus”. “Complete” has a twofold meaning here: First, there now exists a translation of volume III into English, while until today the only translation had been into Chinese. Second, the English versions of volume I and II had omitted several, even extended parts of the original, while we now present a complete revised translation into modern English. The volumes, first published between 1902 and 1908, are lecture notes of courses that Klein offered to future mathematics teachers, realizing a new form of teacher training that remained valid and effective until today: Klein leads the students to gain a more comprehensive and methodological point of view on school mathematics. The volumes enable us to understand Klein’s far-reaching conception of elementarisation, of the “elementary from a higher standpoint”, in its implementation for school mathematics./div This volume II presents a paradigmatic realisation of Klein’s approach of elementarisation for teacher education. It is shown how the various geometries, elaborated particularly since the beginning of the 19th century, are revealed as becoming unified in a new restructured geometry. As Klein liked to stress: “Projective geometry is all geometry”. Non-Euclidean geometry proves to constitute a part of this unifying process. The teaching of geometry is discussed in a separate chapter, which provides moreover important information on the history of geometry teaching and an international comparison.

Book Lectures on the Icosahedron and the Solution of Equations of the Fifth Degree

Download or read book Lectures on the Icosahedron and the Solution of Equations of the Fifth Degree written by Felix Klein and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-known work covers the solution of quintics in terms of the rotations of a regular icosahedron around the axes of its symmetry. Its two-part presentation begins with discussions of the theory of the icosahedron itself; regular solids and theory of groups; introductions of (x + iy); a statement and examination of the fundamental problem, with a view of its algebraic character; and general theorems and a survey of the subject. The second part explores the theory of equations of the fifth degree and their historical development; introduces geometrical material; and covers canonical equations of the fifth degree, the problem of A's and Jacobian equations of the sixth degree, and the general equation of the fifth degree. Second revised edition with additional corrections.

Book Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint   Arithmetic   Algebra   Analysis

Download or read book Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint Arithmetic Algebra Analysis written by Felix Klein and published by Aslan Press. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fascinating and inspirational read for anyone with an interest in advanced mathematics, written by the great German mathematician Felix Klein. It is highly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the subject.

Book Sophus Lie and Felix Klein

Download or read book Sophus Lie and Felix Klein written by Lizhen Ji and published by Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co. KG. This book was released on 2015 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Erlangen program expresses a fundamental point of view on the use of groups and transformation groups in mathematics and physics. This volume is the first modern comprehensive book on that program and its impact in contemporary mathematics and physics. Klein spelled out the program, and Lie, who contributed to its formulation, is the first mathematician who made it effective in his work. The theories that these two authors developed are also linked to their personal history and to their relations with each other and with other mathematicians, incuding Hermann Weyl, Elie Cartan, Henri Poincare, and many others. All these facets of the Erlangen program appear in this volume. The book is written by well-known experts in geometry, physics and the history of mathematics and physics.

Book Development of Mathematics in the 19th Century

Download or read book Development of Mathematics in the 19th Century written by Félix Klein and published by Math Science Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vorlesungen Uber Die Theorie For Elliptischen Modulfunctionen

Download or read book Vorlesungen Uber Die Theorie For Elliptischen Modulfunctionen written by Dr Robert Fricke and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fricke's groundbreaking study of the theory of elliptic modular functions is a must-read for anyone interested in the foundations of modern mathematics. With clear explanations and insightful examples, Fricke offers a comprehensive overview of this complex and fascinating subject. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Eightfold Way

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  • Author : Silvio Levy
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2001-05-28
  • ISBN : 9780521004190
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book The Eightfold Way written by Silvio Levy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-28 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expository and research articles by renowned mathematicians on the myriad properties of the Klein quartic.

Book The Evanston Colloquium

Download or read book The Evanston Colloquium written by Felix Klein and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I. Clebsch.--II-III. Sophus Lie.--IV. On the real shape of algebraic curves and surfaces.--V. Theory of functions and geometry.--VI. On the mathematical character of space-intuition, and the relation of pure mathematics to the applied sciences.--VII. The transcendency of the numbers [Greek letter epsilon] and [Greek letter pi].--VII. Ideal numbers.--IX. The solution of higher algebraic equations.--X. On some recent advances in hyperelliptic and Abelian functions.--XI. The most recent researches in non-Euclidean geometry.--XII. The study of mathematics at Göttingen.--Appendix.

Book The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community  1876 1900

Download or read book The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community 1876 1900 written by Karen Hunger Parshall and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Photograph and Figure Credits -- Chapter 1. An overview of American mathematics: 1776-1876 -- Chapter 2. A new departmental prototype: J.J. Sylvester and the Johns Hopkins University -- Chapter 3. Mathematics at Sylvester's Hopkins -- Chapter 4. German mathematics and the early mathematical career of Felix Klein -- Chapter 5. America's wanderlust generation -- Chapter 6. Changes on the horizon -- Chapter 7. The World's Columbian exposition of 1893 and the Chicago mathematical congress -- Chapter 8. Surveying mathematical landscapes: The Evanston colloquium lectures -- Chapter 9. Meeting the challenge: The University of Chicago and the American mathematical research community -- Chapter 10. Epilogue: Beyond the threshold: The American mathematical research community, 1900-1933 -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Back Cover

Book Gestalt Graphology

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  • Author : Felix Klein
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2007-12
  • ISBN : 0595443079
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Gestalt Graphology written by Felix Klein and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founder of the National Society for Graphology, Felix Klein began his study of graphology in his birthplace, Vienna, Austria, at the age of thirteen. He was a practicing graphologist all of his life and lectured and gave seminars throughout the United States and in Canada, England, Germany, Israel and Mexico. Mr. Klein came to the United States in 1940 after spending six months each in the concentration camps at Dachau and Buchenwald. While in those camps he formulated his theory of directional pressure as a result of studying changes in the handwriting of his fellow inmates. Mr. Klein did extensive work in personnel selection for major companies and banks, vocational guidance, and individual analyses, as well as forensic document examination for such entities as the U.N., AT&T, and a major political figure in Ghana, Africa. It was probably as a teacher that Felix was most known and loved. He held classes and offered correspondence courses in all levels of graphology: elementary, intermediate, advanced, Master Research, and Psychology for Graphologists. Wherever Felix spoke, his warm, caring personality and his naturalness and keen sense of humor generated enthusiastic responses from young and old alike.

Book Famous Problems  and Other Monographs

Download or read book Famous Problems and Other Monographs written by Felix Klein and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: