Geographic Maps and Infinity

Eli Maor
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Eli Maor: Oakland University, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Chapter 13 in To Infinity and Beyond, 1987, pp 95-101 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract It is, of course, not just for the sake of beauty that mathematicians study inversion, for the subject turns up in many different branches of science, sometimes quite unexpectedly. We will discuss here one such case—the role inversion plays in cartography, the science of map making.

Keywords: Stereographic Projection; North Pole; South Pole; Logarithmic Spiral; Small Shape (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-5394-5_13

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