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Portraits of the Earth: A Mathematician Looks at Maps
About this Title
Timothy G. Feeman, Villanova University, Villanova, PA
Publication: Mathematical World
Publication Year:
2002; Volume 18
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-3255-4 (print); 978-1-4704-1193-0 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/mawrld/018
MathSciNet review: MR1932599
MSC: Primary 86A30; Secondary 51P05
Table of Contents
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Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- Chapter 1. Geodesy—measuring the earth
- Chapter 2. Map projections
- Chapter 3. Scale factors
- Chapter 4. Distances and shortest paths on the sphere
- Chapter 5. Angles, triangles, and area on a sphere
- Chapter 6. Curvature of surfaces
- Chapter 7. Classical projections
- Chapter 8. Equal-area maps
- Chapter 9. Conformal maps
- Chapter 10. Analysis of map distortion
- Chapter 11. Oblique perspectives
- Chapter 12. Other worlds: Maps of surfaces of revolution
- Appendix A. Aspects of thematic cartography: Symbolization, data classification, and thematic maps
- Appendix B. Laboratory projects
- Appendix C. Portraits of the earth: How the maps in this book were produced