Abstract
DIFFERENTIAL geometry is a technical and rather forbidding term, but the subject is of the highest interest, and not to mathematicians alone. It includes the whole theory of mapdrawing; it is required for the problem of soapfilm surfaces; and if the earth were much different from a sphere the theory of geodesies would enter into practical questions of navigation and engineering.
Lectures on the Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces.
By Dr. A. R. Forsyth Pp. xxiii+525. (Cambridge: The University Press, 1912.) Price 21s. net.
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M., G. Lectures on the Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces . Nature 89, 579–580 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089579a0
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