Quasiconformal mappings, from Ptolemy's geography to the work of Teichm\"uller

zbMath1411.30001arXiv1702.03756MaRDI QIDQ4645611

Athanase Papadopoulos

Publication date: 10 January 2019

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.03756

zbMATH Keywords

cartographyconformal mappingsquasiconformal mappings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesy, mapping problems (86A30) History of geophysics (86-03) General histories, source books (01A05) History of functions of a complex variable (30-03) History of several complex variables and analytic spaces (32-03) Riemann surfaces (30Fxx) Deformations of analytic structures (32Gxx)

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