Plural of folium; leaves or leaf-shaped mathematical curves.
From the Latin 'folium' (leaf), anglicized with the plural '-s' for use in English botanical and mathematical terminology.
When mathematicians talk about 'foliums,' they're usually referring to a whole family of curves that look like leaves—each one slightly different, but all of them beautiful and all of them discovered by accident while studying other problems.
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