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Symmetry: Culture and Science
Volume 32, Number 2, pages 157-160 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2021_2_157

THE APEIROGON AND DUAL NUMBERS

Johan Gielis^1,*, Simone Brasili²

¹ Department of Biosciences Engineering, University of Antwerp, Belgium
E-mail: johan.gielis@uantwerpen.be
ORCID: 0000-0002-4536-3839

² Mathematics Division, School of Science and Technology, University of Camerino, Italy
E-mail: simone.brasili@unicam.it
ORCID: 0000-0002-4925-5237

^* corresponding author

Abstract: The richness, diversity, connection, depth and pleasure of studying symmetry continue to open doors. Here we report a connection between Coxeter’s Apeirogon and the geometry associated with pictorial space, parabolic rotation and dual numbers.

Keywords: polygons, apeirogon, parabolic rotation, dual numbers, perception.
MSC 2020: 11G42

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