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Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces
Taschenbuch von Kristopher Tapp
Sprache: Englisch

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This is a textbook on differential geometry well-suited to a variety of courses on this topic. For readers seeking an elementary text, the prerequisites are minimal and include plenty of examples and intermediate steps within proofs, while providing an invitation to more excursive applications and advanced topics. For readers bound for graduate school in math or physics, this is a clear, concise, rigorous development of the topic including the deep global theorems. For the benefit of all readers, the author employs various techniques to render the difficult abstract ideas herein more understandable and engaging.
Over 300 color illustrations bring the mathematics to life, instantly clarifying concepts in ways that grayscale could not. Green-boxed definitions and purple-boxed theorems help to visually organize the mathematical content. Color is even used within the text to highlight logical relationships.
Applications abound! The study of conformal and equiareal functions is grounded in its application to cartography. Evolutes, involutes and cycloids are introduced through Christiaan Huygens' fascinating story: in attempting to solve the famous longitude problem with a mathematically-improved pendulum clock, he invented mathematics that would later be applied to optics and gears. Clairaut¿s Theorem is presented as a conservation law for angular momentum. Green¿s Theorem makes possible a drafting tool called a planimeter. Foucault¿s Pendulum helps one visualize a parallel vector field along a latitude of the earth. Even better, a south-pointing chariot helps one visualize a parallel vector field along any curve in any surface.
In truth, the most profound application of differential geometry is to modern physics, which is beyond the scope of this book. The GPS in any car wouldn¿t work without general relativity, formalized through the language of differential geometry. Throughout this book,applications, metaphors and visualizations are tools that motivate and clarify the rigorous mathematical content, but never replace it.
This is a textbook on differential geometry well-suited to a variety of courses on this topic. For readers seeking an elementary text, the prerequisites are minimal and include plenty of examples and intermediate steps within proofs, while providing an invitation to more excursive applications and advanced topics. For readers bound for graduate school in math or physics, this is a clear, concise, rigorous development of the topic including the deep global theorems. For the benefit of all readers, the author employs various techniques to render the difficult abstract ideas herein more understandable and engaging.
Over 300 color illustrations bring the mathematics to life, instantly clarifying concepts in ways that grayscale could not. Green-boxed definitions and purple-boxed theorems help to visually organize the mathematical content. Color is even used within the text to highlight logical relationships.
Applications abound! The study of conformal and equiareal functions is grounded in its application to cartography. Evolutes, involutes and cycloids are introduced through Christiaan Huygens' fascinating story: in attempting to solve the famous longitude problem with a mathematically-improved pendulum clock, he invented mathematics that would later be applied to optics and gears. Clairaut¿s Theorem is presented as a conservation law for angular momentum. Green¿s Theorem makes possible a drafting tool called a planimeter. Foucault¿s Pendulum helps one visualize a parallel vector field along a latitude of the earth. Even better, a south-pointing chariot helps one visualize a parallel vector field along any curve in any surface.
In truth, the most profound application of differential geometry is to modern physics, which is beyond the scope of this book. The GPS in any car wouldn¿t work without general relativity, formalized through the language of differential geometry. Throughout this book,applications, metaphors and visualizations are tools that motivate and clarify the rigorous mathematical content, but never replace it.
Über den Autor
Kristopher Tapp is Professor of Mathematics at Saint Joseph's University. He has been awarded two National Science Foundation research grants to support research in differential geometry, and several teaching awards. He is the author of
Symmetry: A Mathematical Exploration
(Springer, 2012) and over twenty research papers featured in top journals.
Zusammenfassung

Can be used as a textbook in elementary and more advanced courses in differential geometry

Focuses on applications of differential geometry, lending simplicity to more difficult and abstract concepts

Features full-color text and inserts to distinguish fundamental definitions and theorems

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction.- Curves.- Additional topics in curves.- Surfaces.- The curvature of a surface.- Geodesics.- The Gauss-Bonnet theorem.- Appendix A: The topology of subsets of
Rn

.- Recommended excursions.- Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Geometrie
Genre: Mathematik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
Inhalt: viii
366 S.
186 farbige Illustr.
366 p. 186 illus. in color.
ISBN-13: 9783319819693
ISBN-10: 3319819690
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Tapp, Kristopher
Auflage: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Hersteller: Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG
Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
Maße: 235 x 155 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Kristopher Tapp
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.06.2018
Gewicht: 0,638 kg
Artikel-ID: 114237130
Über den Autor
Kristopher Tapp is Professor of Mathematics at Saint Joseph's University. He has been awarded two National Science Foundation research grants to support research in differential geometry, and several teaching awards. He is the author of
Symmetry: A Mathematical Exploration
(Springer, 2012) and over twenty research papers featured in top journals.
Zusammenfassung

Can be used as a textbook in elementary and more advanced courses in differential geometry

Focuses on applications of differential geometry, lending simplicity to more difficult and abstract concepts

Features full-color text and inserts to distinguish fundamental definitions and theorems

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction.- Curves.- Additional topics in curves.- Surfaces.- The curvature of a surface.- Geodesics.- The Gauss-Bonnet theorem.- Appendix A: The topology of subsets of
Rn

.- Recommended excursions.- Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Geometrie
Genre: Mathematik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
Inhalt: viii
366 S.
186 farbige Illustr.
366 p. 186 illus. in color.
ISBN-13: 9783319819693
ISBN-10: 3319819690
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Tapp, Kristopher
Auflage: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Hersteller: Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG
Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
Maße: 235 x 155 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Kristopher Tapp
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.06.2018
Gewicht: 0,638 kg
Artikel-ID: 114237130
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