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What is a Manifold? (6/6)

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Behnam Esmayli

In posts 1-3 we were able to reduce all of the geometry of a curve in 3-space to an interval along with two or three real-valued functions. We also discussed when two sets of such data give equivalent (overlapping) curves. This … Continue reading →

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What is a Manifold? (4/6)

Posted on December 2, 2016 by Behnam Esmayli

After our luxurious treatment of 1-d manifolds, we turn to 2-d manifolds. My story of surfaces starts in a beautifully weird morning when I got up to realize that life in the usual Euclidean plane had changed dramatically. Vectors had shortened, areas … Continue reading →

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