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most citedEuler and Chebyshev: From the sphere to the plane and backwards

12 citations

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Nicolas-Auguste Tissot: A link between cartography and quasiconformal theory

Athanase Papadopoulos

Nicolas-Auguste Tissot (1824--1897) published a series of papers on cartography in which he introduced a tool which became known later on, among geographers, under the name of the…

math.HO2016★ 12 cited

Euler and Chebyshev: From the sphere to the plane and backwards

Athanase Papadopoulos

We report on the works of Euler and Chebyshev on the drawing of geographical maps. We point out relations with questions about the fitting of garments that were studied by Chebyshe…