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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Felix Klein’s Vision: A School for Mathematical Productivity Regardless of Nationality, Gender, and Area of Research.- Chapter 2. About Polish students of Felix Klein.- Chapter 3. Mathematicians from the Czech lands and Felix Klein.- Chapter 4. “I have to tell you about England!”: Felix Klein’s influence on the research of young British mathematicians.- Chapter 5. Foreign inspiration and domestic tradition: the Göttingen-speaking mathematicians in Turin.- Chapter 6. Mellen Woodman Haskell in Leipzig and Göttingen.- Chapter 7. From Naples to Pavia, passing from Göttingen. The scientific trajectory of Ernesto Pascal and his relationship with Felix Klein.- Chapter 8. Wilhelm Wirtinger and his publications on Abelian functions, in particular theta functions.- Chapter 9. Felix Klein and his relations with Greek mathematicians as they appear in their letters.- Chapter 10. Felix Klein’s first female doctoral student Grace Emily Chisholm Young — A livelong connection concerning mathematical research and more.- Chapter 11. From St Petersburg to Göttingen. About Helena Bortkiewicz and Aleksandra Stebnicka.- Chapter 12. Bridging Göttingen and Tokyo: Oral Culture and the Dynamics of Mathematical Knowledge.- Chapter 13. Felix Klein’s mature distance student, Encyklopädie contributor and self-declared heir: the Austrian Richard von Mises.- Chapter 14. The presence of Felix Klein in the process of modernization and internationalization of mathematical culture in Spain and Argentina.- Chapter 15. Klein’s Seminars on Probability.- Chapter 16. Foreign Students in Felix Klein’s Seminars.
