Regular Map

Regular map may refer to:

  • a regular map (algebraic geometry), in algebraic geometry, an everywhere-defined, polynomial function of algebraic varieties
  • a regular map (graph theory), a symmetric 2-cell embedding of a graph into a closed surface

Famous quotes containing the words regular and/or map:

    ““I couldn’t afford to learn it,” said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. “I only took the regular course.”
    “What was that?” inquired Alice.
    “Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,” the Mock Turtle replied; “and then the different branches of Arithmetic—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.”
    “I never heard of ‘Uglification,’” Alice ventured to say.”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)