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Surface Theory with Darboux and Bianchi

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The treatises of Darboux (1842–1917) and Bianchi (1856–1928) on surface theory are among the great works in the mathematical literature. They are:

G. Darboux, Théorie générale des surfaces, Tome 1 (1887), 2 (1888), 3 (1894), 4 (1896), and later editions and reprints.

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Peter Hilton Friedrich Hirzebruch Reinhold Remmert

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Chern, SS. (1991). Surface Theory with Darboux and Bianchi. In: Hilton, P., Hirzebruch, F., Remmert, R. (eds) Miscellanea Mathematica. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76709-8_4

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