Loxodromes: A Rhumb Way to Go

DOI10.2307/3219199MaRDI QIDQ4654201zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James C. Alexander

Publication date 3 March 2005

Full work available at URL http://www.maa.org/pubs/mathmag.html

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations (51M05)

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