The Klein quartic has the smooth projective plane model
Its affine chart is . If is a primitive seventh root of unity, the projective transformation
is an automorphism of order seven.
The projective completion of
is the smooth plane quartic
The coordinate relabelling turns this equation into the standard Klein quartic equation .
The coordinate function has degree three on the Klein quartic. It has ramification index three at , index two at the seven affine points satisfying and , and index two at . The total ramification is ten, so the Riemann-Hurwitz formula gives genus three.

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The Klein quartic is a notable and interesting example of a mathematical object in the field of topology and algebraic geometry. Specifically, it is a compact Riemann surface of genus 3, which can be represented as a complex algebraic curve of degree 4.