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  • Finally, both of them were drawn to Göttingen, where Felix Klein and David Hilbert had established an international centre of mathematics in which women were encouraged to participate.

    Margarete Kahn. 2009

  • Lectured at the University of Göttingen where he founded the Eskimo society along with mathematician Felix Klein; he also met Fechner and probably Frege, who studied in Göttingen during this period.

    On A Trans-Atlantic Flight 2009

  • In Göttingen, the two friends attended lectures with the mathematicians Felix Klein (1849 – 1925) and Hilbert, with the physicist Woldemar Voigt (1850 – 1919), and the psychologist Georg-Elias Müller (1850 – 1934).

    Margarete Kahn. 2009

  • In 1912, Mach, Felix Klein, David Hilbert, Einstein, and others signed a manifesto aiming at the development of a comprehensive world-view.

    The Unity of Science Cat, Jordi 2007

  • In 1912, Einstein's name, together with those of the Göttingen mathematicians David Hilbert and Felix Klein, was prominently displayed (in the Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau 27, 336) among those joining Mach's in a call for the formation of a "Society for Positivist Philosophy".

    Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity Ryckman, Thomas A. 2006

  • It was not until the middle of 1915 (after taking his dog-and-pony show to Goettingen, the house of David Hilbert, Felix Klein, and Emmy Noether among others) did things begin to crystallize.

    Einstein’s Discovery of General Relativity, 1905-1915 cjohnson 2005

  • Mills is a true genius at geometry with an eye worthy of Euclid or the great Felix Klein.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

  • Mills is a true genius at geometry with an eye worthy of Euclid or the great Felix Klein.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

  • Felix Klein and Henri Poincaré also made it clear that in pure mathematics no axioms are privileged; the upshot of these developments is to support a sort of democratic equality among axioms with respect to claims of truth (Vailati, Scritti).

    PRAGMATISM PHILIP P. WIENER 1968

  • With some updates, Grassmann's work also led Hamilton to discover quaternions and it influenced Felix Klein and Élie Cartan.

    The Reference Frame 2010

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