English Explanatory Dictionary

Schläfli symbol

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A notation that recursively encodes certain properties of a specified regular polytope or tessellation.

Word forms

Schläfli symbol Schläfli symbols

Etymology

From Schläfli (“a surname”) + symbol, after 19th-century Swiss mathematician Ludwig Schläfli (1814–1895).

Synonyms

Schläfli notation
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