Modern Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica, Third Edition

Presenting theory while using Mathematica in a coomplementary way, Modern Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica, the third Edition of Alfred Gray's Famous Textbook, covers how to define and compute standard geometric functions using Mathematica for constructing new curves and surfaces from existing ones. Since Gray's death, authors Abbena and Salomon have stepped in to bring the book up to date. Maintaining Gray's approach, they reorganized the material to provide a clearer division between the text and the Mathematica code and added a Mathematica notebook as an appendix to each chapter. They also address important new topics, such as quaternions. Containg more than 300 illustrations, the book demonstates how to use Mathematica to plot many interesting curves and surfaces. The authors highlight important theorems with many examples and include 300 microprograms for computing and ploting varius geometric objects, alleviating the drudgery of computing things such as the curvature and torsion of a curve in space.