Fuchsian group

English

Etymology

First studied by Henri Poincaré (1882), who was motivated by the work of Lazarus Fuchs (1880) and therefore named them after him.

Noun

Fuchsian group (plural Fuchsian groups)

  1. (mathematics) Any discrete group of isometries of the hyperbolic plane.
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