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    In geometry, Boy's surface is an immersion of the real projective plane in three-dimensional space. It was discovered in 1901 by the German mathematician...
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  • Whitney umbrella Boy's surface Cantor tree surface Homoeoid Jacob's ladder surface Loch Ness monster surface Morin surface Seashell surface Superegg Supertoroid...
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    Werner Boy (German: [ˈvɛɹnɐ bɔɪ]; 4 May 1879 − 6 September 1914) was a German mathematician. He was the discoverer and eponym of Boy's surface—a three-dimensional...
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    Steiner surfaces, including Boy's surface, the Roman surface and the cross-cap, are models of the real projective plane in E3, but only the Boy surface is...
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    Boy's surface (earlier used as a half-way model), in 1978. His graduate student François Apéry, in 1986, discovered another parametrization of Boy's surface...
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    Real projective plane (category Surfaces)
    self-intersections) in 3-space. Boy's surface is an example of an immersion. Polyhedral examples must have at least nine faces. Steiner's Roman surface is a more degenerate...
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    immersion of the sphere; both it and Boy's surface arise as midway models in sphere eversion. Boy's surface The Morin surface Immersed plane curves have a well-defined...
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    Microsoft Surface is a series of touchscreen-based personal computers, tablets, and interactive whiteboards designed and developed by Microsoft, most...
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    this property: that there is no plane tangent to any surface at the singularity. Boy's surface – an immersion of the projective plane without cross-caps...
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    Klein bottle (category Surfaces)
    Algebraic topology Alice universe Bavard's Klein bottle systolic inequality Boy's surface Stillwell 1993, p. 65, 1.2.3 The Klein Bottle. Weeks, Jeffrey (2020)...
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