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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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    and surfaces in the three-dimensional Euclidean space, and the study of these shapes formed the basis for development of modern differential geometry during...
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  • on which Geometry is Based"). It is a very broad and abstract generalization of the differential geometry of surfaces in R3. Development of Riemannian...
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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 are...
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    In differential geometry, the two principal curvatures at a given point of a surface are the maximum and minimum values of the curvature as expressed...
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    mathematics, such as differential geometry and complex analysis. The various mathematical notions of surface can be used to model surfaces in the physical...
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  • field of differential geometry, Euler's theorem is a result on the curvature of curves on a surface. The theorem establishes the existence of principal...
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    In three dimensions all developable surfaces are ruled surfaces (but not vice versa). There are developable surfaces in four-dimensional space ⁠ R 4 {\displaystyle...
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    In differential geometry, constant-mean-curvature (CMC) surfaces are surfaces with constant mean curvature. This includes minimal surfaces as a subset...
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    In differential geometry, the Gaussian curvature or Gauss curvature Κ of a smooth surface in three-dimensional space at a point is the product of the principal...
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    In differential geometry a translation surface is a surface that is generated by translations: For two space curves c 1 , c 2 {\displaystyle c_{1},c_{2}}...
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    1007/s00004-011-0087-z do Carmo, Manfredo P. (1976), Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces (1st ed.), Prentice-Hall, ISBN 978-0132125895 Barth,...
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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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    Theorema Egregium (category Differential geometry of surfaces)
    Theorem") is a major result of differential geometry, proved by Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1827, that concerns the curvature of surfaces. The theorem says that...
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  • on the surface. M. do Carmo, Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, page 257. Andrew Pressley (2001). Elementary Differential Geometry. Springer...
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    Julius Weingarten (category Academic staff of Technische Universität Berlin)
    Halle-Wittenberg. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces, such as the Weingarten equations. Julius Weingarten at the...
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  • Delfino Codazzi (category Differential geometers)
    contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces, such as the Codazzi–Mainardi equations. He graduated in mathematics at the University of Pavia, where...
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  • Darboux frame (category Differential geometry of surfaces)
    In the differential geometry of surfaces, a Darboux frame is a natural moving frame constructed on a surface. It is the analog of the Frenet–Serret frame...
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  • In geometry, a pseudosphere is a surface with constant negative Gaussian curvature. A pseudosphere of radius R is a surface in R 3 {\displaystyle \mathbb...
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  • Mean curvature (category Differential geometry of surfaces)
    H {\displaystyle H} of a surface S {\displaystyle S} is an extrinsic measure of curvature that comes from differential geometry and that locally describes...
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  • Asymptotic curve (category Differential geometry of surfaces)
    In the differential geometry of surfaces, an asymptotic curve is a curve always tangent to an asymptotic direction of the surface (where they exist). It...
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    the mathematical study of the differential geometry of surfaces, a tangent developable is a particular kind of developable surface obtained from a curve...
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    Saddle point (redirect from Saddle surface)
    hyperbolic paraboloid shape. Saddle surfaces have negative Gaussian curvature which distinguish them from convex/elliptical surfaces which have positive Gaussian...
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  • theory of connections. After the classical work of Gauss on the differential geometry of surfaces and the subsequent emergence of the concept of Riemannian...
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  • Volume entropy (category Differential geometry)
    closely related with other notions of entropy found in dynamical systems and plays an important role in differential geometry and geometric group theory. If...
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  • Monge patch (category Differential geometry of surfaces)
    In the differential geometry of surfaces, the Monge patch designates the parameterization of a surface by its height over a flat reference plane. It is...
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  • Differential geometry of curves is the branch of geometry that deals with smooth curves in the plane and the Euclidean space by methods of differential...
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    Pierre Ossian Bonnet (category Differential geometers)
    mathematician. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces, including the Gauss–Bonnet theorem. Pierre Bonnet attended...
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  • frequently arise in differential geometry, for example, in the Weyl and Minkowski problems in differential geometry of surfaces. They were first studied...
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  • Simons' formula (category Differential geometry of surfaces)
    In the mathematical field of differential geometry, the Simons formula (also known as the Simons identity, and in some variants as the Simons inequality)...
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