A brief account of the historical development of pseudospherical surfaces from 1827 to 1887 ...
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 81
ISBN-13: 9781418178475
Subjects: Mathematics / General
First sentence: 1. Surfaces whose measure of curvature at every point is constant and negative were called pseudospherical surfaces by Beltrami in 1868, in order, as he said, "to avoid circumlocution."