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Roman surface en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

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

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Synonyms

Steiner surface