Interdisciplinary Crisis Management Group: Rethinking Interdisciplinarity

The Research Genealogy of Dr. Jason Levy

The research genealogy of Jason Kevin Levy is traced to (Johann) Carl Friedrich Gauss (Universität Helmstedt, 1799), the so-called Prince of Mathematics, and the "Greatest Mathematician since Antiquity". Gauss (1777-1855) made seminal contributions to the fields of geodesy, differential geometry, astronomy, and analysis. In 1818, he personally carried out a geodesic survey of the German state of Hanover in order to connect with the existing Danish grid. Today, the Gaussian curvature of a regular surface in at a point is formally defined as (1) where S is the shape operator and det denotes the determinant.

(2)

Then, the Gaussian curvature is given by

(3)

where E, F, and G are coefficients of the first fundamental form and e, f, and g are coefficients of the second fundamental form.
                                               

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