What is the Steiner surface?
The Steiner surface (or Roman surface), discovered in 1844 by Swiss mathematician Jakob Steiner. Each of its tangent planes intersects the surface in a pair of conics. The Steiner surface also contains three double lines that meet one another in a triple point.
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