Roman surface

English

An animation of the Roman surface

Etymology

So called because it was discovered by Jakob Steiner when he was in Rome in 1844.

Noun

Roman surface (plural Roman surfaces)

  1. (mathematics) A self-intersecting mapping of the real projective plane into three-dimensional space, with an unusually high degree of symmetry.
    Synonym: Steiner surface
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