Denys Fisher Denys Fisher Denys Fisher (11 May 1918 – 17 September 2002) was an English engineer who invented the spirograph toy and created the company Denys Fisher Toys. He left Leeds University to join the family firm, Kingfisher (Lubrication) Ltd. In 1960 he left the firm to set up his own company, Denys Fisher Engineering, in Leeds. In 1961 the company won a contract with NATO to supply springs and precision components for its 20 mm cannon. Between 1962 and 1964 he developed various drawing machines from Meccano pieces, eventually producing a prototype Spirograph. Patented in 16 countries, it went on
Geometric function theory Geometric function theory Geometric function theory is the study of geometric properties of analytic functions. A fundamental result in the theory is the Riemann mapping theorem. The following are some of the most important topics in geometric function theory: A conformal map is a function which preserves angles locally. In the most common case the function has a domain and range in the complex plane. More formally, a map, is called conformal (or angle-preserving) at a point formula_3 if it preserves oriented angles between curves through formula_3 with respect to their orientation (i.e., not just the magnitude of the angle).