Timeline for Theory of surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ as level sets
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| Dec 14, 2018 at 7:07 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak |
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| Dec 14, 2018 at 6:18 | answer | added | Robert Bryant | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 13, 2018 at 22:25 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | What subjects do you consider classical? The book "Differential Topology" by Guillemin and Pollack covers quite a lot of classical ground. I have some notes that extend G&P into basic differential geometry, using the same general framework as G&P. | |
| Dec 13, 2018 at 21:35 | comment | added | Liviu Nicolaescu | You can define the Levi-Civita connection, the first and the second fundamental form without appealing to local coordinates. You can even prove Gauss-Bonnet without local coordinates but this assuming some topological facts: degree theory and Poincaré-Hopf theorem | |
| Dec 13, 2018 at 16:16 | history | asked | Otis Chodosh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |