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

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