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Jun 6, 2018 at 6:49 answer added Martin Peters timeline score: 0
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May 2, 2018 at 18:06 history edited Ben McKay CC BY-SA 4.0
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May 2, 2018 at 17:58 answer added Lawrence Mouillé timeline score: 2
May 1, 2018 at 16:16 answer added Amir Vaxman timeline score: 0
Aug 13, 2015 at 21:25 comment added Ryan Budney It's used quite heavily in some branches of continuum mechanics.
Aug 13, 2015 at 17:57 answer added Rogier Brussee timeline score: 20
Aug 11, 2015 at 17:46 answer added Gil Kalai timeline score: 10
Aug 4, 2015 at 20:40 comment added Joseph O'Rourke Here is one reference to support @BenCrowell's remark: Ebetiuc, Silvia, and Staab Haraldw. "Applying differential geometry to kinematic modeling in mobile robotics." In 2005 WSEAS Int. Conf. on Dynamical systems and control, pp. 106-112. 2005. (PDF download link.)
Aug 4, 2015 at 19:53 answer added Alexandre Eremenko timeline score: 14
Aug 4, 2015 at 19:18 comment added user21349 This is just a vague memory, but I think there may be applications in fields like robotics, where the robot has various degrees of freedom (angle of this joint, length of this telescoping part, ...), and the space describing these degrees of freedom is a manifold.
Aug 4, 2015 at 15:47 answer added Joseph O'Rourke timeline score: 31
Aug 4, 2015 at 15:22 history asked Learning math CC BY-SA 3.0