"Cartography exhibited rapid advances during periods when mathematics was used in an integral manner, and declined during others when maps were simply drawn by travelers based on their experiences or devised by scholars to illustrate philosophical theories of world order..."
Resnikoff and Wells From Mathematics and Civilization
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Maps Main Page What are Maps? Map History Math Topics Math Problems Web Resources Careers Teachers' Notes References Other Math Lessons |
Mathematics of Cartography
The Four-Color Problem
Mathematics Topics
John Polking's
Geometry of
The Sphere
Scale
Coordinate systems
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Maps Main Page What are Maps? Map History Math Topics Math Problems Web Resources Careers Teachers' Notes References Other Math Lessons |
Copyright 1996-2008 Cynthia Lanius
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