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Differential Geometry

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Topics of this chapter are Singularities of Space Curves, Lines of Curvature on Quadrics, Cyclides of Dupin (characterized by the property that all their lines of curvature are pieces of circles or straight lines), Surfaces of Constant Curvature, and Minimal Surfaces.

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  1. Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Prof. Dr. Manfredo P. do Carmo

  2. Zentrum Mathematik, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

    Gerd Fischer Prof. Dr.

  3. Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pinkall

  4. Mathematisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Helmut Reckziegel

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  1. Zentrum Mathematik, Technische Universität München, Garching, Bayern, Germany

    Gerd Fischer

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do Carmo, M.P., Fischer, G., Pinkall, U., Reckziegel, H. (2017). Differential Geometry. In: Fischer, G. (eds) Mathematical Models. Springer Spektrum, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-18865-8_10

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