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      Regular Surfaces
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      Regular Surfaces

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      Regular Surfaces book

      Regular Surfaces

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      Regular Surfaces book

      ByThomas Banchoff, Stephen Lovett
      BookDifferential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces

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      Edition 2nd Edition
      First Published 2015
      Imprint Chapman and Hall/CRC
      Pages 40
      eBook ISBN 9780429156229
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      ABSTRACT

      This chapter shows why one requires more technical definitions to arrive at a workable definition that matches what one typically means by a "surface". A cube, for example, is not a regular surface because for whatever parametrization is used in the neighborhood of an edge where two faces meet, at least one of the partial derivatives will not exist. A particular patch of a surface can be parametrized in a variety of ways. Comparing surfaces to curves, recall that at every regular point on a curve, the unit tangent vector to a curve at a point is invariant under a positively oriented reparametrization of the curve, and the tangent line to the curve at a point is an entirely geometric object, completely unchanged under reparametrizations. The concept of an orientable surface encapsulates the notion of being able to define an inside and an outside to the surface.

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