fuchsian

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A couple of examples: The great mathematician Henri Poincare was struggling with a problem on fuchsian functions.

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Of or relating to Lazarus Fuchs (1833–1902), German mathematician

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Of or relating to Lazarus Fuchs (1833–1902), German mathematician

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adjective

Of or relating to Lazarus Fuchs (1833–1902), German mathematician

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A couple of examples: The great mathematician Henri Poincare was struggling with a problem on fuchsian functions.

In uniformly curved 2D hyperbolic spaces, it turns out that there is a higher dimensional non-Abelian Fuchsian translation group defined on a higher genus torus.

> an interesting napping technique Here's Henri Poincaré on how how he discovered Fuchsian functions[1]: For fifteen days I strove to prove that there could not be any functions like those I have since called Fuchsian functions.

By the next morning I had established the existence of a class of Fuchsian functions, those which come from the hypergeometric series; I had only to write out the results, which took but a few hours.

The vicissitudes of the journey made me quickly forget my mathematical work; reached Coutances, we entered an omnibus to drive somewhere; when I set foot on the step it occurred to me, without anything in my mathematical thoughts having prepared me for it, that the transformations I had used to define the Fuchsian functions were identical to those of non-Euclidean geometry.