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The topics covered are pure differential geometry, especially submanifolds and affine differential geometry, and applications of geometry to human vision, robotics, and gastro-entrology.

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Author:   Franki Dillen (Katholieke Univ Leuven, Belgium) ,  Leopold Verstraelen (Katholieke Univ Leuven & Katholieke Univ Brussel, Belgium) ,  Ignace Van De Woestyne (Katholieke Univ Brussel, Belgium)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
ISBN:  

9789810218133

ISBN 10:   9810218133
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   01 September 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

A Reimannian invariant for submanifolds in space forms and its applications, B.Y. Shen; some variational problems in submanifold theory, F. Dillen; isoparametric systems on symmetric spaces, S. Mullen; focal sets in affine geometry, R. Niebergall and P.J. Ryan; buckling eigenvalues and variational problems for surfaces in the three sphere, B. Palmer; on manifolds, R. Rosca; human representation for closed contours, K. Waeytens et al; affine shape equivalence, J. Wagemans et al; Cartan's method of moving frames applied to the study of surfaces in affine 4-space, J. Weiner; a survey of the theory of harmonic (pseudo)-Reimannian spaces, T. Willmore; a unified equiaffine theory of surfaces i R4 - the definite surfaces, C. Wang. (Part contents).

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