معلومات المقرر

Course Contents
Curves: arc length and curvature; selected global theorems. Surface theory: fundamental forms, shape operator; principal curvatures, Gaussian and mean curvature. Compatibility equations, geodesics, parallel transport, Gauss-Bonnet Theorem. Topics from discrete differential geometry, such as: curvature of polygonal curves and polyhedral surfaces, Bézier curves and surfaces.

Literature
Bär: Elementare Differentialgeometrie
Montiel, Ros: Curves and surfaces
Hoschek, Lasser: Grundlagen der Geometrischen Datenverarbeitung

Preconditions
recommended: Analysis, Ordinary Differetial Equations, Linear Algebra

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