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Let me begin by describing one of the gems of classical mathematics which first stirred my own enthusiasm for inversive geometry. It illustrates the elegance of the subject and provides a point of interest which we shall glimpse again in the closing chapters of this account.
I would like to thank H. S. M. Coxeter, J. C. Fisher, E. Honig, W. Israel, B. Salzberg, L. Southwell, J. F. Rigby, and B. Wilker for their encouraging enthusiasm. My interest in inversive geometry goes back more than ten years, and for much of this time I have received financial support from Canadian NRC Grant A8100. The opportunity to write the final version of this paper came while I was enjoying a sabbatical year as Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, The Australian National University.
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Wilker, J.B. (1981). Inversive Geometry. In: Davis, C., Grünbaum, B., Sherk, F.A. (eds) The Geometric Vein. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5648-9_27
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