克莱因四次曲线可以被视为柏拉图立体概念到双曲七边形镶嵌的扩展,如上图所示(Coxeter 1956; Thurston 1999, p. 7; Wolfram 2002, p. 1050)。在镶嵌中,第 个“环”中的七边形数量惊人地等于 ,其中 是一个斐波那契数(Thurston 1999, p. 5)。
该曲面已被 Helaman Ferguson 用大理石和蛇纹石雕刻出来,并于 1993 年 11 月 14 日在伯克利的数学科学研究所揭幕(Levy 1999, Plate 1 following p. 142; Borwein and Bailey 2003, p. 55, 彩色图版 IV, 以及封底)。
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