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Surface of 4. order with 4 planes touching along cicles

Model 128

Material:Size:Category:
Gips10 × 10 × 10A VI 15-20

Description

Steiner's Roman surface

Showcase of this model is Case number 9

References

Schilling, Martin(Hrg.): Catalog mathematischer Modelle, Leipzig(Verlag von Martin Schilling) 1911, 7.Auflage, No.100. p. 126.

Fischer, Gerd(Hrg.): Fotoband: Mathematische Modelle / Mathematical Models, mit 132 Fotografien, Braunschweig/Wiesbaden (Vieweg) 1986, picture(s) 42-44. .

Fischer, Gerd(Hrg.): Mathematical Models, Commentary, Braunschweig/Wiesbaden(Vieweg) 1986. .

Separataband M1 im Mathematischen Institut p. 171.