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Tight Embeddings and Maps. Submanifolds of Geometrical Class Three in E N

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The Chern Symposium 1979

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Differential geometry is a field in which geometry is expressed in analysis, algebra, and calculations, and in which analysis and calculations are sometimes understood in intuitive steps that could be called geometric.

The author acknowledges with gratitude that part of this paper was written while he was a guest of IMPA in Rio de Janeiro in July 1979.

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    Nicolaas H. Kuiper

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Kuiper, N.H. (1980). Tight Embeddings and Maps. Submanifolds of Geometrical Class Three in E N . In: Hsiang, WY., Kobayashi, S., Singer, I.M., Wolf, J., Wu, HH., Weinstein, A. (eds) The Chern Symposium 1979. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8109-9_6

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