Rotation and Winding Numbers for Planar Polygons and Curves

DOI10.2307/2001527MaRDI QIDQ3209742zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Branko Grünbaum, G. C. Shephard

Publication date 1990

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2001527

zbMATH Keywords

rotation numberwinding numbercurvepolaritytangent numbern-gonplanar polygon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations (51M05) Length, area and volume in real or complex geometry (51M25) General low-dimensional topology (57M99) Integration of real functions of several variables: length, area, volume (26B15)

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