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As a definition of a surface, Definition 2.3.1 is not entirely satisfactory, because it does not cover many objects that we would naturally like to call surfaces, such as a sphere. Indeed, there are three common ways in which objects that we consider surfaces in ℝ3 can arise:
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Fomenko, A.T., Kinii, T.L. (1997). Local Theory of Surfaces. In: Topological Modeling for Visualization. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-66956-2_3
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