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One of Gauss’s most important discoveries about surfaces is that the gaussian curvature is unchanged when the surface is bent without stretching. Gauss called this result ‘egregium’, and the Latin word for ‘remarkable’ has remained attached to his theorem ever since.
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Pressley, A. (2001). Gauss’s Theorema Egregium. In: Elementary Differential Geometry. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3696-5_10
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