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The circle as an “everywhere equal,” unbounded, but, nevertheless, finite line seems to be perfect — these properties contributed in the past, and also today, to look for its realizations in the basic structures of physics and, apparently, to find it there quite often.
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Claudius Ptolemaios, around (90–163).
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Nikolaus Cryfftz of Kues (1401–1464), Niclas Koppernigk (1473–1543).
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Aristarchos of Samos, around -(310–230).
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Evariste Galois (1811–1832).
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Jules Antoine Lissajous (1822–1880).
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Peter Higgs (1929–).
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Alfred Young (1873–1940).
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Joseph Wedderburn (1882–1948).
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Heinrich Maschke (1853–1908).
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Saller, H. (2017). Circles and Winding Numbers. In: Operational Symmetries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58664-9_5
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