Conformal mapping, a central concept in complex analysis, involves the transformation of one complex domain onto another while preserving local angles and shapes. This powerful tool has long been used ...

A method is described for the computation of the Green's function in the complex plane corresponding to a set of K symmetrically placed polygons along the real axis. An important special case is a set ...

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YOUR neurologist would love to flatten your brain. Not physically, you will be glad to know, but mathematically. For, just as the exploration of the earth's surface (a sphere, more or less) required ...