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Surfaces in Rn
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Surfaces in Rn book
Surfaces in Rn
DOI link for Surfaces in Rn
Surfaces in Rn book
ByFrank Morgan
Edition 2nd Edition
First Published 1998
Imprint A K Peters/CRC Press
Pages 6
eBook ISBN 9781315275482
ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how the theory of curvature at a point p in a twodimensional surface S extends from R3 to Rn. As before, choose orthonormal coordinates on Rn with the origin at p and S tangent to the xl, x2-plane at p. The tangent plane TpS to S at p is now the x1,x2-plane; the orthogonal complement TpS⊥ is the x3, . . . , xn,-plane; and locally S is the graph of a function