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Geometry of Surfaces by Nigel Hitchin

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Geometry of Surfaces
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Number of pages: 101

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This is a course on surfaces. However we are also going to try and consider surfaces intrinsically, or abstractly, and not necessarily embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.

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