Schläfli symbol

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词形变化

Schläfli symbols 复数 Schläfli symbols

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A notation that recursively encodes certain properties of a specified regular polytope or tessellation.

    数学

    1995, Unnamed translator, E. B. Vinberg, Polynomial Group, article in M. Hazewinkel (editor), Encyclopaedia of Mathematics, Volume 4: Monge–Ampère Equation — Rings and Algebras, 2013, International Edition, page 481, The three-dimensional regular polytopes (Platonic solids) have the following Schläfli symbols: the tetrahedron — {3, 3}, the cube — {4, 3}, the octahedron — {3, 4} — the dodecahedron — {5, 3}, and the icosahedron — {3, 5}.

词源

From Schläfli (“a surname”) + symbol, after 19th-century Swiss mathematician Ludwig Schläfli (1814–1895).

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