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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
• Organization: NorthWest Nexus Inc.
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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
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