Differential Geometry
by Balazs Csikos
Publisher: Eötvös Loránd University 2010
Number of pages: 123
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Contents: Basic Structures on Rn, Length of Curves; Curvatures of a Curve; Plane Curves; 3D Curves; Hypersurfaces; Surfaces in the 3-dimensional space; The fundamental equations of hypersurface theory; Topological and Differentiable Manifolds; The Tangent Bundle; The Lie Algebra of Vector Fields; Differentiation of Vector Fields; Curvature; Geodesics.
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