Because the Earth is roughly spherical, every flat map distorts our planet one way or another. The most popular version is the Mercator projection, created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus ...

Projection algorithms are well known for their simplicity and flexibility in solving feasibility problems. They are particularly important in practice owing to minimal requirements for software ...

Zhihua Sun, Feifei Chen, Hua Liang, David Ruppert, A PROJECTION-BASED CONSISTENT TEST INCORPORATING DIMENSION-REDUCTION IN PARTIALLY LINEAR MODELS, Statistica Sinica, Vol. 31, No. 3 (2021), pp.

MAPS of the world have the impossible task of portraying the Earth—a three-dimensional shape—on a flat sheet of paper. Mapmakers have to choose a projection of the globe that approximates the ...

The world map you are probably familiar with is called the Mercator projection (below), which was developed all the way back in 1569 and greatly distorts the relative areas of land masses.