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Past exam of the geometry course of the University of Oxford 2010 A 2 i Solution by
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For a regular parametric surface , setThe first fundamental form is the induced Riemannian metricThe second fundamental form, for this choice of unit normal vector, isThe Gaussian curvature is the product of the principal curvatures, equivalently the determinant of the shape operator:Reversing the normal reverses the second fundamental form and both principal curvatures, while leaving unchanged.
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