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Felix Klein was a German mathematician who had a profound impact on the field of mathematics. He made significant contributions to geometry, mathematical physics, and mathematical education. Klein is best known for his Erlangen Program, which proposed that mathematics should be divided into three parts: geometry, mathematical physics, and pure mathematics. He also founded Klein geometry, which had a significant influence on the development of mathematics in the 20th century.

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“It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.”

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Book:The Evanston Colloquium: Lectures on Mathematics Delivered from Aug. 28 to Sept. 9, 1893 Before Members of the Congress of Mathematics Held in Connection with the World's Fair in Chicago at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill

Source: The Evanston Colloquium: Lectures on Mathematics Delivered from Aug. 28 to Sept. 9, 1893 Before Members of the Congress of Mathematics Held in Connection with the World's Fair in Chicago at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill

“The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He must take account of the psychic processes in the boy in order to grip his interest, and he will succeed only if he presents things in a form intuitively comprehensible. A more abstract presentation is only possible in the upper classes.”

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“Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning.”

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“Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.”

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“Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.”

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“Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.”

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