Gaussian curvature


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Gaussian curvature

Discussion

  1. What is the curvature inside the region on a sphere exterior to a tiny circle?
  2. On a polyhedron, what is the curvature inside a region containing a single vertex? two vertices? all but one vertex? all the vertices?


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Peter Doyle