English Explanatory Dictionary

Poincaré disk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The hyperbolic plane, viewed as a disk so that Euclidean circles and lines Euclidean-perpendicular to the disk's surface are hyperbolic lines.

Word forms

Poincaré disk Poincaré disks Poincaré disc

Etymology

After Henri Poincaré.

Related words

hyperbolic geometry
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