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Algebraic numbers and functions, 2000 23 alberta candel and lawrence conlon, foliation i. Before we do that for curves in the plane, let us summarize what we have so far. Berger, a panoramic view of riemannian geometry, springer. The top and front view of the curvature lines of the ellipsoid are affine. Without a doubt, the most important such structure is that of a riemannian or more generally semiriemannian metric.
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