The Erlangen programme, proposed by Felix Klein, characterizes geometries based on group theory and projective geometry.
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- List of mathematics history topics (en.wikipedia.org)
- https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3161 (arxiv.org)
- https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Erlangen+program (ncatlab.org)
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