Poincaré disk

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After Henri Poincaré. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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Poincaré disk (plural Poincaré disks)

  1. The hyperbolic plane, viewed as a disk so that Euclidean circles and lines Euclidean-perpendicular to the disk's surface are hyperbolic lines.

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