Fuchsian group
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]First studied by Henri Poincaré (1882), who was motivated by the work of Lazarus Fuchs (1880) and therefore named them after him.
Noun
[edit]Fuchsian group (plural Fuchsian groups)
- (mathematics) Any discrete group of isometries of the hyperbolic plane.