dessin d'enfant

English

The dessin d'enfant arising from the rational function f = −(x − 1)³(x − 9)/64x. Not to scale.

Etymology

Borrowed from French dessin d’enfant (“child's drawing”).

Noun

dessin d'enfant (plural dessins d'enfant)

1. (mathematics) A type of graph embedding used to study Riemann surfaces and to provide combinatorial invariants for the action of the absolute Galois group of the rational numbers.

Synonyms

• dessin