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Wave surface

In mathematics, Fresnel's wave surface, found by Augustin-Jean Fresnel in 1822, is a quartic surface describing the propagation of light in an optically biaxial crystal. Wave surfaces are special cases of tetrahedroids which are in turn special cases of Kummer surfaces.

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Wave surface → Appliquées, April, Arithmetik, Arthur, Augustin Fresnel, Basel, Bateman, Berlin, Birkhäuser, Boston, Collected, Die Fresnelsche Wellenfläche, Dover Publications, Elasticity, Fresnel, Geometrie, Imprimerie Impériale, ISBN, ISSN, Journal
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