This book
explains the following topics: General Curve Theory, Planar Curves, Space
Curves, Basic Surface Theory, Curvature of Surfaces, Surface Theory, Geodesics
and Metric Geometry, Riemannian Geometry, Special Coordinate Representations.
The purpose of this course note is the study of curves and surfaces ,
and those are in general, curved. The book mainly focus on geometric aspects of
methods borrowed from linear algebra; proofs will only be included for those
properties that are important for the future development.
This book is
addressed to the reader who wishes to cover a greater distance in a short time
and arrive at the front line of contemporary research. This book can serve as a
basis for graduate topics courses. Exercises play a prominent role while
historical and cultural comments relate the subject to a broader mathematical
context.
This
note contains on the following subtopics of Differential Geometry,
Manifolds, Connections and curvature, Calculus on
manifolds and Special topics.