projective plane
Polyhedral Version
| Boy's Surface: | ... | Boy, in 1902, was a young student of the great mathematician Hilbert. One day he imagined that "the projective space of dimension 2" could be represented in 3D space in the form of an "immersion". This gave the object on the right. Hilbert was very interested in this major discovery. He said to his student "we will talk about it again after summer", then he went on vacation. Upon his return, he waited in vain for the young Boy. He had canceled his rental with his landlady and had... vanished. Hilbert vainly searched for him, in vain. It is even unknown where he is buried. | See, on the website "The different faces of | ". |
Boy's surface and projective immersion
En résumé (grâce à un LLM libre auto-hébergé)
- The Boy surface is a mathematical representation of the 2-dimensional projective space.
- It was conceived by a student of Hilbert in 1902, who then disappeared mysteriously.
- Hilbert was very interested in this discovery, but Boy disappeared after terminating his lease.