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Modèle en fil sur une structure en laiton, représentant un cône cubique de genre un

Wire model on a brass structure, representing a cubic cone of genus 1. This model was created by Hermann Wiener, professor of mathematics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, in 1899. It forms part of a collection of mathematical objects at the Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP).

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