Fuchsian group

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Fuchsian group

noun

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

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Mathematics, Sciences Any discrete group of isometries of the hyperbolic plane.

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