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One way of exploring curved surfaces is to examine the curvature of curves lying on them. In the present chapter, we will use planes to cut a surface in a specific way, and we will study the resulting curves to gain some insight into the nature of surface curvature.
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© 1996 Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig/Wiesbaden
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Casey, J. (1996). Normal Sections. In: Exploring Curvature. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-80274-3_15
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