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Sophus Lie and Felix Klein: The Erlangen Program and Its Impact in Mathematics and Physics

Lizhen Ji and Athanase Papadopoulos, editors
Publisher: 
European Mathematical Society
Publication Date: 
2015
Number of Pages: 
330
Format: 
Hardcover
Series: 
IRMA Lectures in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics 23
Price: 
51.00
ISBN: 
9783037191484
Category: 
Proceedings
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  • L. Ji -- Sophus Lie, A giant in mathematics
  • L. Ji -- Felix Klein: His life and mathematics
  • J. J. Gray -- Klein and the Erlangen Programme
  • H. Goenner -- Klein's "Erlanger Programme": Do traces of it exist in physical theories?
  • N. A'Campo and A. Papadopoulos< -- On Klein's so-called non-Euclidean geometry
  • A, Vinogradov -- What are symmetries of PDEs and what are PDEs themselves?
  • C. Frances -- Transformation groups in non-Riemannian geometry
  • N. A'Campo and A. Papadopoulos -- Transitional geometry
  • A. Papadopoulos and S. Yamada -- On the projective geometry of constant curvature spaces
  • Y. B. Suris -- The Erlangen program and discrete differential geometry
  • C. Meusburger -- Three-dimensional gravity--An application of Felix Klein's ideas in physics
  • J.-B. Zuber -- Invariances in physics and group theory
  • List of contributors
  • Index