Re: Differential geometry
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- Subject: [mg12687] Re: Differential geometry
- From: Paul Middents <pmiddents at kendaco.telebyte.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 23:16:58 -0400
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The book, "Modern Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica" by Alfred Gray has what you want. Its published by CRC Press. I found the first edition very useful. The second edition is enlarged and specific to Version 3.0 Paul Middents Olympic College Yves Verbandt wrote: > Dear Mathematica experts, > > Is there a package out there a package which contains standard functions > from differential geometry (curvature, principal curvature, geodesics, > ...) applicable to 3D surfaces which are defined as a list of points in > space? > > Thanking you > -- > ***************************************** > Yves Verbandt > Universit Libre de Bruxelles > Biomedical Physics Laboratory > cp. 613/3, Route de Lennik 808, > 1070 Bruxelles, BELGIUM > tel. +-322-555.61.63 > fax. +-322-555.61.62 > email yverband at ulb.ac.be > ****************************************