Schwarz lantern
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Schwarz lantern
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Named after mathematician Hermann Schwarz and for its resemblance to a cylindrical paper lantern.
noun Schwarz lanterns
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A polyhedral approximation to a cylinder (formed by stacked rings of isosceles triangles, arranged within each ring in the same pattern as an antiprism), used as a pathological example of the difficulty of defining the area of a smooth (curved) surface as the limit of the areas of polyhedra.
Similar: Chinese lantern, Schwarz's polyhedron
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title = {Schwarz lantern},
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