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Riemannian Geometry is a subfield of Differential Geometry, which specifically studies "Riemannian Manifolds", manifolds with "Riemannian Metrics", which means that they are equipped with continuous inner products.
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Why are they called isothermal coordinates?
According to Gray, Abbena and Salamon, that's the name given to such coordinate systems by Gabriel Lamé in his 1833 study of heat transfer. The reason is, if you've got a thermally isolated surface of …
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