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Ramanan no part of this book may be reproduced in any form by print, micro. Free mathematics textbooks, monographs, lecture notes, and other documents. Internet archive contributor university of california libraries language english. The theory of plane and space curves and surfaces in the threedimensional euclidean space formed the basis for development of differential geometry during the 18th century and the 19th century. The aim of this textbook is to give an introduction to di erential geometry.
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