A wind rose
In the walk by the side of the river Isarco, in Bolzano, a wind rose shows the distance from Bolzano of some european towns. This is the occasion for some observations of spherical geometry in one of the ten signposts of the MIC project "Maths in the city".
© Fabiana Marchesini
foto di Fabiana Marchesini
The image belongs to the sections...:
Spherical geometry (Other geometries)
The spots shown in the maths signposts (Exhibitions with matematita)
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