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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ii Paper 4 25H c Solution by
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No. Fix and, near , letThen , so this is a regular unit-speed profile with on a sufficiently small interval. Rotate it around the -axis. For an arc-length surface of revolution, , and thereforeAt , the formulas from part (a) give the principal curvaturesThey are unequal because , so the point is not an umbilical point. Every point of a sphere is umbilical. Consequently no neighbourhood of this point can lie on a sphere, giving a non-spherical surface of constant Gaussian curvature one.
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