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  title info:
    title: Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces
  name:
    name part: Kobayashi, Shoshichi.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 192 p. 1 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book is a posthumous publication of a classic by Prof. Shoshichi Kobayashi, who taught at U.C. Berkeley for 50 years, recently translated by Eriko Shinozaki Nagumo and Makiko Sumi Tanaka. There are five chapters: 1. Plane Curves and Space Curves; 2. Local Theory of Surfaces in Space; 3. Geometry of Surfaces; 4. Gauss-Bonnet Theorem; and 5. Minimal Surfaces. Chapter 1 discusses local and global properties of planar curves and curves in space. Chapter 2 deals with local properties of surfaces in 3-dimensional Euclidean space. Two types of curvatures - the Gaussian curvature K and the mean curvature H -are introduced. The method of the moving frames, a standard technique in differential geometry, is introduced in the context of a surface in 3-dimensional Euclidean space. In Chapter 3, the Riemannian metric on a surface is introduced and properties determined only by the first fundamental form are discussed. The concept of a geodesic introduced in Chapter 2 is extensively discussed, and several examples of geodesics are presented with illustrations. Chapter 4 starts with a simple and elegant proof of Stokes' theorem for a domain. Then the Gauss-Bonnet theorem, the major topic of this book, is discussed at great length. The theorem is a most beautiful and deep result in differential geometry. It yields a relation between the integral of the Gaussian curvature over a given oriented closed surface S and the topology of S in terms of its Euler number χ(S). Here again, many illustrations are provided to facilitate the reader's understanding. Chapter 5, Minimal Surfaces, requires some elementary knowledge of complex analysis. However, the author retained the introductory nature of this book and focused on detailed explanations of the examples of minimal surfaces given in Chapter 2. .
  table of contents: Plane Curves and Space Curves -- Local Theory of Surfaces in the Space -- Geometry of Surfaces -- The Gauss-Bonnet Theorem -- Minimal Surfaces. .
  note: by Shoshichi Kobayashi.
  subject:
    topic: Differential geometry
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical analysis
  subject:
    topic: Analysis (Mathematics)
  subject:
    topic: Manifolds (Mathematics)
  subject:
    topic: Complex manifolds
  subject:
    topic: Differential Geometry
  subject:
    topic: Analysis
  subject:
    topic: Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology)
  classification: QA641-670
  classification: 516.36
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series
  identifier: 9789811517396
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1739-6
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    record creation date: 191113
    record change date: 20191113102158.0
    record identifier: 978-981-15-1739-6