Some Properties Related to Mercator Projection

DOI10.2307/2695708MaRDI QIDQ2764727zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wim Pijls

Publication date 5 February 2003

Published in American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2695708

zbMATH Keywords

conformal mappingcurves in Euclidean spaceexponential functionMercator projectionstereographic projectiontractrix

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Zeros of polynomials, rational functions, and other analytic functions of one complex variable (e.g., zeros of functions with bounded Dirichlet integral) (30C15) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Projective connections (53B10)

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