Mini-Workshop: Felix Klein’s Foreign Students: Opening Up the Way for Transnational Mathematics

Abstract

Extending existing analyses of the topic, the workshop aimed to investigate the influence of Felix Klein on the development of mathematics (especially number theory, algebra, geometry, analysis, applications of mathematics in scientific and technical fields as well as in mathematics education) in countries other than Germany. The goal of the workshop was to take a look at mathematicians of foreign origin who studied with Klein that have received little attention so far (including Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian mathematicians) and uncover how Klein guided them through his lectures and seminars. The protocols of the lectures held in Klein’s seminars (from 1872 to 1912 in Göttingen, Erlangen, and Leipzig), which are a unique and so far largely unexplored source, were the basis for the workshop.