Good treatments on the differential geometry on surfaces.

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center o bass

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Sep 11, 2013

Hi! I'm trying to read up on the subject of hypersurfaces related to GR; First and second fundamental form, Theorema Egregium etc.. Does anyone know any good treatments? (Books or notes)

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mathwonk

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Sep 13, 2013

heres a nice free set of notes:

http://www.math.uga.edu/%7Eshifrin/ShifrinDiffGeo.pdf

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