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Introduction

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This series of lectures will deal exclusively with the global geometry of two-dimensional surfaces. The intrinsic Riemannian geometry of surfaces will be considered only to a small extent, while the major concern will be with surfaces, especially closed ones, in three dimensional Euclidean space.

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Hopf, H. (1983). Introduction. In: Differential Geometry in the Large. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1000. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-21563-0_5

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