English Explanatory Dictionary

Roman surface

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A self-intersecting mapping of the real projective plane into three-dimensional space, with an unusually high degree of symmetry.

Word forms

Roman surface Roman surfaces

Etymology

So called because it was discovered by Jakob Steiner when he was in Rome in 1844.

Synonyms

Steiner surface
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