Beautiful Book - Taxicab Geometry by Eugene Krause

Taxi cab geometry is found by slightly changing the distance formula. In this changed world, the circle looks different than an usual circle; so does many other usual geometric shapes.


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So many beautiful books you have shown in this channel but sadly I can't find the time to do anything other than my college textbooks.

[globalolympiadsacademy]

If (m, n) are the coordinates of the centre, then the distance r of all equidistant points with coordinates (x, y) will be represented by the equation, |x-m| + |y -n| = r and they will make a square.

[Aman_iitbh]

circle will look like square if distance is calc like u defined