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Reinventing the Wheel: Non-Circular Wheels

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  1. Instituto Technológico Autónomo de México, San Ángel, Mexico City, Mexico

    Claudia Masferrer León & Sebastián von Wuthenau Mayer

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  1. Claudia Masferrer León
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Correspondence to Claudia Masferrer León.

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This work was partially supported by the Instituto de Matemáticas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the Instituto Technólogico Autónomo de México

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León, C.M., von Wuthenau Mayer, S. Reinventing the Wheel: Non-Circular Wheels. The Mathematical Intelligencer 27, 7–13 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02985852

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