Felix Klein

Renate Tobies is a historian of mathematics and science at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (Germany). After completing her academic degrees at the University of Leipzig, she served as the managing editor of NTM: Journal for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine for twenty years. She was a visiting professor at the University of Kaiserslautern and an interim professor of the history of science and technology at the University of Stuttgart. Throughout her career, she has held additional visiting professorships in Braunschweig, Saarbrücken, Jena, Linz, and Graz. Her main research fields are the history of mathematics and its applications, and women in mathematics, science, and technology. She has published more than ten books and hundreds of articles. She is a full member of the Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences (Paris) and a foreign member of the Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters (Kristiansand, Norway).

“Renate Tobies’ Felix Klein is meticulously researched. … Renate Tobies has written an authoritative biography of Felix Klein. It is informative, detailed, and marks an important addition to the scholarly literature. I recommend it enthusiastically.” (Benjamin Linowitz, MAA Reviews, January 29, 2023)“Renate Tobies has given us in this book an exhaustive and authoritative survey of the life and works of one of the most remarkable mathematicians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Felix Klein.” (Eduard Glas, Mathematical Reviews, May, 2022)“Pursuing Klein’s life takes the reader on a journey through the history of the important German mathematical community in the 19th century and their connections to foreign mathematicians. … The book is very readable and leaves nothing to be desired. It will certainly become the standard reference on Klein.” (Thomas Sonar, zbMATH 1480.01002, 2022)

• Preface.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Influencing groups.- 3 Professorship at the University of Erlangen.- 4 Professorship at the Polytechnikum Munich.- 5 Professorship of Geometry in Leipzig.- 6 Start as Professor in Göttingen, 1886-1892.- Setting the course.- 8 Fruits of the efforts, 1895-1913.- 9 World War I and post-war period.- 10 Concluding remarks.- Appendix: Selection of documents.