quartic
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No. Direct variation equations are power functions—they may be linear, quadratic, cubic, quartic, radical, etc.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
It’s a model of a surface called the Klein quartic.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2013
Once you’ve tiled the hyperbolic plane by heptagons, you can glue 24 of them together in a certain way to create a Klein quartic surface, and that is exactly what Taimina did.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2013
The Klein quartic surface is a 2-dimensional object with 3 holes that has a lot of symmetries.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2013
As early as the sixteenth century, mathematicians were using numbers with i included—the so-called complex numbers—to solve cubic and quartic polynomials.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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