Download or read book The Advanced Geometry of Plane Curves and Their Applications written by C. Zwikker and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Of chief interest to mathematicians, but physicists and others will be fascinated ... and intrigued by the fruitful use of non-Cartesian methods. Students ... should find the book stimulating." — British Journal of Applied Physics This study of many important curves, their geometrical properties, and their applications features material not customarily treated in texts on synthetic or analytic Euclidean geometry. Its wide coverage, which includes both algebraic and transcendental curves, extends to unusual properties of familiar curves along with the nature of lesser known curves. Informative discussions of the line, circle, parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola presuppose only the most elementary facts. The less common curves — cissoid, strophoid, spirals, the leminscate, cycloid, epicycloid, cardioid, and many others — receive introductions that explain both their basic and advanced properties. Derived curves-the involute, evolute, pedal curve, envelope, and orthogonal trajectories-are also examined, with definitions of their important applications. These range through the fields of optics, electric circuit design, hydraulics, hydrodynamics, classical mechanics, electromagnetism, crystallography, gear design, road engineering, orbits of subatomic particles, and similar areas in physics and engineering. The author represents the points of the curves by complex numbers, rather than the real Cartesian coordinates, an approach that permits simple, direct, and elegant proofs.
Download or read book The Elementary Differential Geometry of Plane Curves written by Ralph Howard Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalog of Special Plane Curves written by J. Dennis Lawrence and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVOne of the most beautiful aspects of geometry. Information on general properties, derived curves, geometric and analytic properties of each curve. 89 illus. /div
Download or read book Introduction to Plane Algebraic Curves written by Ernst Kunz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Employs proven conception of teaching topics in commutative algebra through a focus on their applications to algebraic geometry, a significant departure from other works on plane algebraic curves in which the topological-analytic aspects are stressed *Requires only a basic knowledge of algebra, with all necessary algebraic facts collected into several appendices * Studies algebraic curves over an algebraically closed field K and those of prime characteristic, which can be applied to coding theory and cryptography * Covers filtered algebras, the associated graded rings and Rees rings to deduce basic facts about intersection theory of plane curves, applications of which are standard tools of computer algebra * Examples, exercises, figures and suggestions for further study round out this fairly self-contained textbook
Download or read book Plane Algebraic Curves written by Gerd Fischer and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an excellent introduction to algebraic geometry, which assumes only standard undergraduate mathematical topics: complex analysis, rings and fields, and topology. Reading this book will help establish the geometric intuition that lies behind the more advanced ideas and techniques used in the study of higher-dimensional varieties.
Download or read book Singularities of Plane Curves written by Eduardo Casas-Alvero and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-31 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and self-contained exposition of singularities of plane curves, including new, previously unpublished results.
Download or read book Plane Algebraic Curves written by Harold Hilton and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elementary Geometry of Differentiable Curves written by C. G. Gibson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introductory text on the differential geometry of plane curves.
Download or read book Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces written by Shoshichi Kobayashi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a posthumous publication of a classic by Prof. Shoshichi Kobayashi, who taught at U.C. Berkeley for 50 years, recently translated by Eriko Shinozaki Nagumo and Makiko Sumi Tanaka. There are five chapters: 1. Plane Curves and Space Curves; 2. Local Theory of Surfaces in Space; 3. Geometry of Surfaces; 4. Gauss–Bonnet Theorem; and 5. Minimal Surfaces. Chapter 1 discusses local and global properties of planar curves and curves in space. Chapter 2 deals with local properties of surfaces in 3-dimensional Euclidean space. Two types of curvatures — the Gaussian curvature K and the mean curvature H —are introduced. The method of the moving frames, a standard technique in differential geometry, is introduced in the context of a surface in 3-dimensional Euclidean space. In Chapter 3, the Riemannian metric on a surface is introduced and properties determined only by the first fundamental form are discussed. The concept of a geodesic introduced in Chapter 2 is extensively discussed, and several examples of geodesics are presented with illustrations. Chapter 4 starts with a simple and elegant proof of Stokes’ theorem for a domain. Then the Gauss–Bonnet theorem, the major topic of this book, is discussed at great length. The theorem is a most beautiful and deep result in differential geometry. It yields a relation between the integral of the Gaussian curvature over a given oriented closed surface S and the topology of S in terms of its Euler number χ(S). Here again, many illustrations are provided to facilitate the reader’s understanding. Chapter 5, Minimal Surfaces, requires some elementary knowledge of complex analysis. However, the author retained the introductory nature of this book and focused on detailed explanations of the examples of minimal surfaces given in Chapter 2.
Download or read book The geometry of plane curves written by Dionysius Lardner and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Book of Curves written by Edward Harrington Lockwood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the drawing of plane curves, cycloidal curves, spirals, glissettes and others.
Download or read book Modern Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica written by Elsa Abbena and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting theory while using Mathematica in a complementary way, Modern Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica, the third edition of Alfred Gray’s famous textbook, covers how to define and compute standard geometric functions using Mathematica for constructing new curves and surfaces from existing ones. Since Gray’s death, authors Abbena and Salamon have stepped in to bring the book up to date. While maintaining Gray's intuitive approach, they reorganized the material to provide a clearer division between the text and the Mathematica code and added a Mathematica notebook as an appendix to each chapter. They also address important new topics, such as quaternions. The approach of this book is at times more computational than is usual for a book on the subject. For example, Brioshi’s formula for the Gaussian curvature in terms of the first fundamental form can be too complicated for use in hand calculations, but Mathematica handles it easily, either through computations or through graphing curvature. Another part of Mathematica that can be used effectively in differential geometry is its special function library, where nonstandard spaces of constant curvature can be defined in terms of elliptic functions and then plotted. Using the techniques described in this book, readers will understand concepts geometrically, plotting curves and surfaces on a monitor and then printing them. Containing more than 300 illustrations, the book demonstrates how to use Mathematica to plot many interesting curves and surfaces. Including as many topics of the classical differential geometry and surfaces as possible, it highlights important theorems with many examples. It includes 300 miniprograms for computing and plotting various geometric objects, alleviating the drudgery of computing things such as the curvature and torsion of a curve in space.
Download or read book A Guide to Plane Algebraic Curves written by Keith Kendig and published by MAA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to the plane algebraic curves that also serves as a natural entry point to algebraic geometry. This book can be used for an undergraduate course, or as a companion to algebraic geometry at graduate level.
Download or read book Complex Algebraic Curves written by Frances Clare Kirwan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-02-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This development of the theory of complex algebraic curves was one of the peaks of nineteenth century mathematics. They have many fascinating properties and arise in various areas of mathematics, from number theory to theoretical physics, and are the subject of much research. By using only the basic techniques acquired in most undergraduate courses in mathematics, Dr. Kirwan introduces the theory, observes the algebraic and topological properties of complex algebraic curves, and shows how they are related to complex analysis.
Download or read book Singular Points of Plane Curves written by C. T. C. Wall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book The Elementary Differential Geometry of Plane Curves written by Ralph Howard Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Topological Invariants of Plane Curves and Caustics written by Vladimir Igorevich Arnolʹd and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is the first exposition of a new theory which unifies the theories of knots, plane curves, caustics, and wavefronts in differential, symplectic, and contact geometry and topology.
