Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It...
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In mathematics, the differential geometry of surfaces deals with the differential geometry of smooth surfaces with various additional structures, most...
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Riemannian geometry is the branch of differential geometry that studies Riemannian manifolds, defined as smooth manifolds with a Riemannian metric (an...
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In differential geometry, a one-form (or covector field) on a differentiable manifold is a differential form of degree one, that is, a smooth section of...
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mechanism (using precomposition) turns several constructions in differential geometry into contravariant functors. Let ϕ : M → N {\displaystyle \phi :M\to...
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methods—differential geometry, algebraic geometry, computational geometry, algebraic topology, discrete geometry (also known as combinatorial geometry), etc...
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mathematics such as calculus, differential geometry, algebraic geometry and algebraic topology. The term differential is used nonrigorously in calculus...
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Discrete differential geometry is the study of discrete counterparts of notions in differential geometry. Instead of smooth curves and surfaces, there...
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This is a list of differential geometry topics. See also glossary of differential and metric geometry and list of Lie group topics. List of curves topics...
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In differential geometry, a discipline within mathematics, a distribution on a manifold M {\displaystyle M} is an assignment x ↦ Δ x ⊆ T x M {\displaystyle...
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differential topology is distinct from the closely related field of differential geometry, which concerns the geometric properties of smooth manifolds, including...
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analysis. Complex geometry sits at the intersection of algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and complex analysis, and uses tools from all three areas...
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In mathematics, projective differential geometry is the study of differential geometry, from the point of view of properties of mathematical objects such...
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In mathematics, synthetic differential geometry is a formalization of the theory of differential geometry in the language of topos theory. There are several...
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References Absolute differential calculus An older name of Ricci calculus Absolute geometry Also called neutral geometry, a synthetic geometry similar to Euclidean...
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This is a glossary of terms specific to differential geometry and differential topology. The following three glossaries are closely related: Glossary of...
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Algebraic differential geometry may refer to: Differential algebraic geometry Differential geometry of algebraic manifolds Manifolds equipped with a derivation...
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In differential geometry there are a number of second-order, linear, elliptic differential operators bearing the name Laplacian. This article provides...
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Differentiable curve (redirect from Differential geometry of curves)
Differential geometry of curves is the branch of geometry that deals with smooth curves in the plane and the Euclidean space by methods of differential...
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conformal geometry is the study of the set of angle-preserving (conformal) transformations on a space. In a real two dimensional space, conformal geometry is...
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(algebraic geometry) BEST theorem (graph theory) Babuška–Lax–Milgram theorem (partial differential equations) Baily–Borel theorem (algebraic geometry) Baire...
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Foundations of Differential Geometry is an influential 2-volume mathematics book on differential geometry written by Shoshichi Kobayashi and Katsumi Nomizu...
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Affine differential geometry is a type of differential geometry which studies invariants of volume-preserving affine transformations. The name affine differential...
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recreational geometry Robin Hartshorne (1938–) – geometry, algebraic geometry Phillip Griffiths (1938–) – algebraic geometry, differential geometry Enrico Bombieri...
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Symplectic geometry is a branch of differential geometry and differential topology that studies symplectic manifolds; that is, differentiable manifolds...
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manifolds. The modern notion of differential forms was pioneered by Élie Cartan. It has many applications, especially in geometry, topology and physics. For...
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Michael Spivak (category Differential geometers)
October 1, 2020) was an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry, an expositor of mathematics, and the founder of Publish-or-Perish...
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Information geometry is an interdisciplinary field that applies the techniques of differential geometry to study probability theory and statistics. It...
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Moving frame (redirect from Frame (differential geometry))
ordered basis of a vector space often used to study the extrinsic differential geometry of smooth manifolds embedded in a homogeneous space. In lay terms...
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Shing-Tung Yau (category Differential geometers)
modern differential geometry and geometric analysis. The impact of Yau's work are also seen in the mathematical and physical fields of convex geometry, algebraic...
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