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Schwarz lantern
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English
thumb|Schwarz lantern on display in the German Museum of Technology, Berlin
Etymology
Named after mathematician Hermann Schwarz and for its resemblance to a cylindrical paper lantern.
Noun
en math 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.
en Chinese lantern Schwarz's polyhedron
Related terms
en Schwarz paradox
en eponyms