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In the last section of Chapter 5, we referred to curvature as being intrinsic. We will explore the notion of intrinsic and extrinsic properties of a geometric object in this section, ending with a rough description of Bernhard Riemann’s reformulation of geometry.
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Singer, D.A. (1998). Geometry of Space. In: Geometry: Plane and Fancy. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0607-1_6
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