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Erlanger Program

A program initiated by F. Klein in an 1872 lecture to describe geometric structures in terms of their group Automorphisms.


References

Klein, F. ``Vergleichende Betrachtungen über neuere geometrische Forschungen.'' 1872.

Yaglom, I. M. Felix Klein and Sophus Lie: Evolution of the Idea of Symmetry in the Nineteenth Century. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser, 1988.




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1999-05-25