Assertion: differential geometry | /r/HasProperty | studied
Facets:
value: from the beginning
type: TEMPORAL
value: from the extrinsic point of view
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: From the beginning and through the middle of the 18th century, differential geometry was studied from the extrinsic point of view: curves and surfaces were considered as lying in a Euclidean space of higher dimension (for example a surface in an ambient space of three dimensions).