- use various descriptions of curves, surfaces and manifolds;
- analyze differential geometric properties of curves, surfaces and curves on surfaces;
- re-derive proofs of classical theorems of differential geometry;
- apply tensor calculus to investigate the properties of surfaces
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Frenet formulas and curvatures for curves in spaces of arbitrary dimension;
Surfaces and two-dimensional manifolds, theory of surface metrics and basic concepts of tensor calculus; basic concepts of the theory of surface curvature
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