English Explanatory Dictionary

Klein quartic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A compact Riemann surface of genus 3 with the highest possible order automorphism group for this genus, namely order 168 orientation-preserving automorphisms, and 336 automorphisms if orientation may be reversed.

Word forms

Klein quartic Klein quartics

Etymology

Named after German mathematician Felix Klein, who described it in 1878.

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