Fuchsian group

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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)

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