Table of Contents

1. MSRI and the Klein quartic William P. Thurston; 2. The geometry of Klein's Riemann surface Hermann Karcher and Matthias Weber; 3. The Klein quartic in number theory Noam Elkies; 4. Hurwitz groups and surfaces A. Murray Macbeath; 5. Eightfold way: the sculpture Helaman Ferguson with Claire Ferguson; 6. From the history of a simple group Jeremy Gray; 7. On the invariants of SL2(Fq) acting on Cn, for 2n±1 Allan Adler; 8. On Hirzebruch's curves F1, F2, F4, F14, F28 for Q(√7) Allan Adler; 9. On the order-seven transformation of elliptic functions Felix Klein.

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Expository and research articles by renowned mathematicians on the myriad properties of the Klein quartic.