FIRST MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTION OF DESSIN D'ENFANT / DEDEKIND TESSELLATION

KLEIN, FELIX.

Über die Transformation der elliptischen Funktionen und die Auflösung der Gleichungen fünften Grades (+) Über die Transformation siebenter Ordnung der elliptischen Funktionen.

Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1879. 8vo. Bound in recent full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Mathematische Annalen", Volume 14., 1879. Entire volume offered. Library label pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper. Small library stamp to lower part of title title page and verso of title page. Very fine and clean. Pp. 111-172; Pp. 428-471. [Entire volume: Pp. (4), 576].

First printing of Felix Klein's two hugely influential papers in which he for the first time presented the first recognizable modern "dessins d'enfants". Klein called these diagrams Linienzüge (German, plural of Linienzug "line-track", also used as a term for polygon).

Dedekind did in 1877 publish a paper in which part of the mathematical background for the "dessins d'enfants" was present. It was, however, Klein that fully explored, both mathematical and visual, its potential.

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