Fuchsian group

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Etymology

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

Noun

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Fuchsian group (plural Fuchsian groups)

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