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Felix Christian Klein
Felix Christian Klein was born on April 25, 1849 (O’Conner and Robertson). Felix Klein was born in Düsseldorf, Prussia, which is now present day Germany. Also, known as Felix Klein, he was a mathematician known for his research in non-Euclidean geometry, group theory, and function theory (Felix Klein German Mathematician).
Felix Klein’s father was part of the Prussian government. His father was secretary to the head of the government. After Felix Klein graduated from the gymnasium in Düsseldorf, he went to the University of Bonn and studied math and physics from 1865-1866. Before Felix Klein had studied non-Euclidean geometry, he first wanted to be a physicist. While still at the University of Bonn he was appointed to lab assistant to Julius Plücker (Felix Klein German Mathematician). Felix Klein got his doctorate, which was supervised by Plücker. Plücker had interest in geometry, which made Felix Klein start to study geometry. Plücker died a few months after Felix Klein got his doctorate, which left Plücker’s work incomplete, and only one person could finish his work (O’Conner and Robertson). That person would be Felix Klein.
After Julius Plücker died and Felix Klein started to work on his unfinished work he worked with a man named Alfred Clebsch. Alfred Clebsch was the head of the math department at the University of Göttingen (Felix Klein German Mathematician). Clebsch had moved to Göttingen in the 1868. Clebsch recommended Klein to be the professor of mathematics at the University of Erlangen (Felix Klein German Mathematician). Before Felix Klein met Clebsch, he worked with Sophus Lie who he met in Berlin just before the Franco-German War in 1870 (Felix Klein German Mathematician).
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...mes of the teaching of math in all levels in Germany (O’Conner and Robertson).
Felix Klein was awarded the De Morgan Medal in 1893 by the London Mathematical Society (O’Conner and Robertson). In 1912 the Royal Society awarded the Copley medal to Felix Klein. In 1885 was when he was first inducted into the Royal Society (O’Conner and Robertson).
Felix Klein also has a prize that is honored after him. The prize is awarded to a young scientist or a group that is usually small of young scientist ("The European Mathematical Society"). The award that is being given is not given to any age group, but rather aimed at the younger generation ("The European Mathematical Society"). The standard that you have to meet to be required to win this prize is that your breakthrough must help solve a problem that is occurring within an industry ("The European Mathematical Society").

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