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Gauss map

in differential geometry, a function that maps each point in a surface to its normal direction

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Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Carl Friedrich Gauss Differential geometry Differential geometry of surfaces Riemannian geometry Surfaces

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function

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Wayback Machine

digital object identifier

differential geometry

Euclidean space

Euler characteristic

surface integral

Jacobian matrix

Riemannian manifold

Eric W. Weisstein

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