Felix Klein: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Christian Felix Klein
Born April 25, 1849 • Düsseldorf • Germany
Died June 22, 1925 (aged 76) • Göttingen • Germany
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1912)

Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
German pathologist and statesman
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James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician
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Michel Chasles
French mathematician
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
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Georg Frobenius
German mathematician
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Robert Eitner
German musicologist
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Wilhelm Johann Eugen Blaschke
German mathematician
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Engraving portrait of Carl Friedrich Gauss wearing a cap and formal 19th-century clothing, with detailed shading around his face and upper body.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Plücker, Julius
Julius Plücker
German mathematician and physicist
Karl Weierstrass
Karl Weierstrass
German mathematician
French philosopher Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician
Engraved portrait of Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler in profile, wearing a dark coat and ruffled white shirt, from the 1740s.
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
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Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
Évariste Galois, detail of an engraving, 1848, after a drawing by Alfred Galois.
Évariste Galois
French mathematician
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Apollonius of Perga
Greek mathematician