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Almost inversion

Source: ICMC 2021 Round 2 P4

December 12, 2021
analysisICMCcollege contestsgeometry

Problem Statement

Let R2\mathbb R^2 denote the Euclidean plane. A continuous function f:R2→R2f : \mathbb R^2 \to \mathbb R^2 maps circles to circles. (A point is not a circle.) Prove that it maps lines to lines.
Proposed by Tony Wang