fuchsian group

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What does fuchsian group mean?

Any discrete group of isometries of the hyperbolic plane.

Where does fuchsian group come from?

First studied by Henri Poincaré (1882), who was motivated by the work of Lazarus Fuchs (1880) and therefore named them after him.

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