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He reached across the table. “Then let’s compute the geodesics together.”

Her desk, a war-zone of half-eaten ramen and scribbled notes, was her spaceship. The problem sets were her alien encounters. Tonight’s enemy: a space curve, (\gamma(t) = (t, t^2, \frac23t^3/2)). The prompt was innocent enough: Find the arc length from t=0 to t=2. elementary differential geometry andrew pressley pdf

“The (F) term couples (du) and (dv),” he said, understanding. “It means the coordinates aren’t orthogonal. Means you can’t separate things neatly.” He reached across the table

He looked up.

She blushed. “He said the geodesic curvature was zero for all straight lines in the plane. I just pointed out—‘straight’ on a sphere is a great circle, but its geodesic curvature is zero, too, even though it’s curved in space.’” (\gamma(t) = (t