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Land surveying

Transforming Ground

Tags: Construction industry, Geometry, Highway design, Integration, Land surveying, Surface fitting, Trigonometry

Stand in any urban environment. Look around. All was once open countryside. We will show what is involved in moulding the ground ready for constructing roads and buildings.

Maths in the City is an EPSRC funded public engagement project led by Professor Marcus du Sautoy.

Maths in the City by Maths in the City - excluding EPSRC and Oxford logos, and where otherwise noted - is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.