Modern differential geometry of curves and surfaces with Mathematica /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gray, Alfred, 1939-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton : CRC Press, c1998.
Edition:2nd ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1.
  • Curves in the plane
  • 2.
  • Studying curves in the plane with Mathematica
  • 3.
  • Famous plane curves
  • 4.
  • Alternate methods for plotting plane curves
  • 5.
  • New curves from old
  • 6.
  • Determining a plane curve from its curvature
  • 7.
  • Global properties of plane curves
  • 8.
  • Curves in space
  • 9.
  • Tubes and knots
  • 10.
  • Construction of space curves
  • 11.
  • Calculus on Euclidean space
  • 12.
  • Surfaces in Euclidean space
  • 13.
  • Examples of surfaces
  • 14.
  • Nonorientable surfaces
  • 15.
  • Metrics on surfaces
  • 16.
  • Surfaces in 3-dimensional space
  • 17.
  • Surfaces in 3-dimensional space via Mathematica
  • 18.
  • Asymptotic curves on surfaces
  • 19.
  • Ruled surfaces
  • 20.
  • Surfaces of revolution
  • 21.
  • Surfaces of constant Gaussian curvature
  • 2.
  • Intrinsic surface geometry
  • 23.
  • Differentiable manifolds
  • 24.
  • Riemannian manifolds
  • 25.
  • Abstract surfaces
  • 26.
  • Geodesics on surfaces
  • 27. The
  • Gauss-Bonnet theorem
  • 29.
  • Principal curves and umbilic points
  • 29.
  • Triply orthogonal systems of surfaces
  • 30.
  • Minimal surfaces
  • 31.
  • Minimal surfaces and complex variables
  • 32.
  • Minimal surfaces via the Weierstrass representation
  • 33.
  • Minimal surfaces via Björling's formula
  • 34.
  • Construction of surfaces
  • 35.
  • Canal surfaces and cyclides of dupin
  • 36.
  • Inversions of curves and surfaces.