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Instructors: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Karsten Große-Brauckmann; Philipp Käse
Event type:
Lecture & Exercise
Org-unit: Dept. 04 - Mathematics
Displayed in timetable as:
Diff. Geom.
Subject:
Crediting for:
Hours per week:
6
Language of instruction:
German and English
Min. | Max. participants:
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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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