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dori1123
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I've been reading a few proofs showing that a great circle is geodesic. Most of these proofs start with a parametrization and then show that it satisfies the differential equations of geodesics. The book that I have doesn't even give a proof. It just tells me that the great circles on the sphere are geodesic. Is there a way to find a particular curve on the sphere and then show that curve is geodesic?