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Building surfaces from equilateral triangles (Lasse REMPE, University of Manchester)

The construction of conformal maps of the earth, i.e. those that faithfully depict angles and orientations, has a long history. The most famous examples are given by stereographic projection (used since antiquity) and Mercator projection (constructed in…

Conseil Général 7-9 / Salle 1-15, Colloque de mathématiques