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On Delisle's geographical projection
Charalampos Charitos, Athanase Papadopoulos
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle was one of the most important scientists at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences during the first period when Euler was working there. Euler was helping…
Vladimir Turaev, friend and colleague
Athanase Papadopoulos
This is a biography and a report on the work of Vladimir Turaev. Using fundamental techniques that are rooted in classical topology, Turaev introduced new ideas and tools that tran…
Map drawing and foliations of the sphere
Athanase Papadopoulos
I will consider some questions related to Euler's work on cartography and its consequences, in which the foliations of the sphere by meridians and parallels play important roles.
A note on Nicolas-Auguste Tissot: At the origin of quasiconformal mappings (to appear in Vol. VII of the Handbook of Teichm{ü}ller Theory)
Athanase Papadopoulos
Nicolas-Auguste Tissot (1824--1897) was a French mathematician and cartographer. He introduced a tool which became known among geographers under the name ``Tissot indicatrix'', and…
Convexity in Greek antiquity
Athanase Papadopoulos
We consider several appearances of the notion of convexity in Greek antiquity, more specifically in mathematics and optics, in the writings of Aristotle, and in art. The final vers…
Topology and biology: From Aristotle to Thom
Athanase Papadopoulos
Ren{é} Thom discovered several refined topological notions in the writings of Aristotle, especially the biological. More generally, he considered that some of the assertions of the…