Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It...
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Riemannian geometry is the branch of differential geometry that studies Riemannian manifolds, defined as smooth manifolds with a Riemannian metric (an...
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In differential geometry, a one-form (or covector field) on a differentiable manifold is a differential form of degree one, that is, a smooth section of...
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In mathematics, the differential geometry of surfaces deals with the differential geometry of smooth surfaces with various additional structures, most...
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In mathematics, projective differential geometry is the study of differential geometry, from the point of view of properties of mathematical objects such...
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mechanism (using precomposition) turns several constructions in differential geometry into contravariant functors. Let ϕ : M → N {\displaystyle \phi :M\to...
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Discrete differential geometry is the study of discrete counterparts of notions in differential geometry. Instead of smooth curves and surfaces, there...
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analysis. Complex geometry sits at the intersection of algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and complex analysis, and uses tools from all three areas...
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This is a list of differential geometry topics. See also glossary of differential and metric geometry and list of Lie group topics. List of curves topics...
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Algebraic differential geometry may refer to: Differential algebraic geometry Differential geometry of algebraic manifolds Manifolds equipped with a derivation...
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Differential Geometry. It covers differential geometry and related subjects such as differential equations, mathematical physics, algebraic geometry,...
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In the mathematical field of differential geometry, Euler's theorem is a result on the curvature of curves on a surface. The theorem establishes the existence...
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In mathematics, synthetic differential geometry is a formalization of the theory of differential geometry in the language of topos theory. There are several...
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In differential geometry, a discipline within mathematics, a distribution on a manifold M {\displaystyle M} is an assignment x ↦ Δ x ⊆ T x M {\displaystyle...
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differential topology is distinct from the closely related field of differential geometry, which concerns the geometric properties of smooth manifolds, including...
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Affine differential geometry is a type of differential geometry which studies invariants of volume-preserving affine transformations. The name affine differential...
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Foundations of Differential Geometry is an influential 2-volume mathematics book on differential geometry written by Shoshichi Kobayashi and Katsumi Nomizu...
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In classical differential geometry, Clairaut's relation, named after Alexis Claude de Clairaut, is a formula that characterizes the great circle paths...
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List of theorems (section Differential geometry)
(differential geometry) Meusnier's theorem (differential geometry) Mostow rigidity theorem (differential geometry) Myers theorem (differential geometry) Myers-Steenrod...
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In differential geometry there are a number of second-order, linear, elliptic differential operators bearing the name Laplacian. This article provides...
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methods—differential geometry, algebraic geometry, computational geometry, algebraic topology, discrete geometry (also known as combinatorial geometry), etc...
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mathematics such as calculus, differential geometry, algebraic geometry and algebraic topology. The term differential is used nonrigorously in calculus...
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Information geometry is an interdisciplinary field that applies the techniques of differential geometry to study probability theory and statistics. It...
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In differential geometry, a smooth surface in three dimensions has a ridge point when a line of curvature has a local maximum or minimum of principal...
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In differential geometry and the study of Lie groups, a parabolic geometry is a homogeneous space G/P which is the quotient of a semisimple Lie group...
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In classical differential geometry, development is the rolling of one smooth surface over another in Euclidean space. For example, the tangent plane to...
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This is a glossary of terms specific to differential geometry and differential topology. The following three glossaries are closely related: Glossary of...
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combinatorial optimization, digital geometry, discrete differential geometry, geometric graph theory, toric geometry, and combinatorial topology. Polyhedra...
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References Absolute differential calculus An older name of Ricci calculus Absolute geometry Also called neutral geometry, a synthetic geometry similar to Euclidean...
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Michael Spivak (category Differential geometers)
October 1, 2020) was an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry, an expositor of mathematics, and the founder of Publish-or-Perish...
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