This book presents a historical account of Felix Klein's "Comparative Reflections on Recent Research in Geometry" (1872), better known as his "Erlangen Program.” Originally conceived and written when Klein was collaborating with Sophus Lie, this bold essay initially made little impression on contemporary researchers. Decades later, however, it eventually became a famous classic.
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Eminent mathematicians hailed Klein’s main message – the role of invariants of transformation groups in geometry – as presaging major developments in mathematics and physics [...]. (Estratto dal sito dell'editore)
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*Felix Klein : the Erlangen program / David E. Rowe. - Cham : Birkhäuser, 2025. - 1 testo elettronico (xvi, 456 p. : ill.)
