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Fuchsian group

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any discrete group of isometries of the hyperbolic plane.

Word forms

Fuchsian group Fuchsian groups

Etymology

First studied by Henri Poincaré (1882), who was motivated by the work of Lazarus Fuchs (1880) and therefore named them after him.

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