20 Apr 2021

Geodesic - Taking A Round Trip

From Nights, 7:13 pm on 20 April 2021

Mathematician Dilon Mayhew is taking a round trip - looking into the shortest path between two points on a surface, such as the surface of a sphere. 

Transpolar geodesic on a triaxial ellipsoid

Transpolar geodesic on a triaxial ellipsoid Photo: Cffk, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons