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020 _a0120887355 (acidfree paper)
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_bN411
100 1 _aO'Neill, Barrett.
245 1 0 _aElementary differential geometry /
_cBarrett O'Neill.
250 _aRev. 2nd ed.
260 _aAmsterdam :
_aBoston :
_bElsevier Academic Press,
_cc2006.
300 _axi, 503 p.
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
500 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 467) and index.
650 0 _aGeometry, Differential.
942 _cBK
505 0 _aIntroduction Chapter 1: calculus on euclidean space: Euclidean space. Tangent vectors. Directional derivatives. Curves in r3. 1-forms. Differential forms. Mappings; Chapter 2: frame fields: Dot product. Curves. The frenet formulas. Arbitraryspeed curves. Covariant derivatives. Frame fields. Connection forms. The structural equations. ; Chapter 3: euclidean geometry: Isometries of r3. The tangent map of an isometry. Orientation. Euclidean geometry. Congruence of curves. ; Chapter 4: calculus on a surface: Surfaces in r3. Patch computations. Differentiable functions and tangent vectors. Differential forms on a surface. Mappings of surfaces. Integration of forms. Topological properties. Manifolds.; Chapter 5: shape operators: The shape operator of m r3. Normal curvature. Gaussian curvature. Computational techniques. The implicit case. Special curves in a surface. Surfaces of revolution. ; Chapter 6: geometry of surfaces in r3: The fundamental equations. Form computations. Some global theorems. Isometries and local isometries. Intrinsic geometry of surfaces in r3. Orthogonal coordinates. Integration and orientation. Total curvature. Congruence of surfaces. ; Chapter 7: riemannian geometry: geometric surfaces. Gaussian curvature. Covariant derivative. Geodesics. Clairaut parametrizations. The gauss-bonnet theorem. Applications of gauss-bonnet. ; Chapter 8: global structures of surfaces: length-minimizing properties of geodesics. Complete surfaces. Curvature and conjugate points. Covering surfaces. Mappings that preserve inner products. Surfaces of constant curvature. Theorems of bonnet and hadamard. ; Appendix Bibliography Answers to odd-numbered exercises Subject index