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Kleinian
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Etymology
From en Klein ian.
Adjective
Of or pertaining to Christian Felix Klein (1849–1925), German mathematician.
en 1986 S. Samuil Leibovich Krushkal'; B. Boris Nikolaevich Apanasov; N. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Gusevskii Kleinian Groups and Uniformization in Examples and Problems 166 Prove that if a Kleinian group G does not contain parabolic elements and is isomorphic to the fundamental group of a closed orientable surface, then G is either quasi-Fuchsian or degenerate
Of or pertaining to Melanie Reizes Klein (1882–1960), Austrian-born British psychoanalyst who devised novel therapeutic techniques for children.
en 1989 Elizabeth Abel Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis 11 The second three months of life, the critical era in the Kleinian narrative, are marked by a shift from the paranoid to the "depressive" position produced by the infant's growing ability to integrate contradictory perceptions.
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en Non-Euclidean geometry