I have little knowledge about complex analysis. I see the topic Fractional Linear Transformations arises in several text, but it does not explain elaborately the application of Fractional Linear Transformations, so my question is What is the motivation behind studying Fractional Linear Transformation? What does it do?

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1. In mathematics, a conformal (or angle-preserving) map is a function that locally preserves angles, but not necessarily lengths.