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a one-dimensional complex manifold; a generalization of the complex plane
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Riemann, Bernhard — ▪ German mathematician in full Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann born September 17, 1826, Breselenz, Hanover [Germany] died July 20, 1866, Selasca, Italy German mathematician whose profound and novel approaches to the study of geometry laid the … Universalium
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