Generalized Curvatures

• Main Author: Morvan, Jean-Marie (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Geometry and Computing, 2
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Computer graphics.; Computer mathematics.; Differential geometry.; Differential Geometry.; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics.

The central object of this book is the measure of geometric quantities describing N a subset of the Euclidean space (E ,), endowed with its standard scalar product. Let us state precisely what we mean by a geometric quantity. Consider a subset N S of points of the N-dimensional Euclidean space E , e...