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Surfaces in R^3: Curves and Regular Surfaces

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MATH-201: Analysis III

Calcul différentiel et intégral. Eléments d'analyse complexe. ...

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This lecture covers the concepts of curves in R^2, regular surfaces in R^3, and the geometric properties of edges. It explains the definition of regular surfaces, the tangent vectors, and the unit normals. The lecture also discusses regular orientable surfaces with geometric edges and the juxtaposition of surfaces with edges.

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Instructors (2)

Joachim Stubbe

Marco Picasso

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Ontological neighbourhood

Mathematics

Geometry: Differential geometry, Euclidean geometry

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Curve

In mathematics, a curve (also called a curved line in older texts) is an object similar to a line, but that does not have to be straight. Intuitively, a curve may be thought of as the trace left by a moving point. This is the definition that appeared more than 2000 years ago in Euclid's Elements: "The [curved] line is [...] the first species of quantity, which has only one dimension, namely length, without any width nor depth, and is nothing else than the flow or run of the point which [...

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Algebraic curve

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