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Parametric surfaces

II. Tangential properties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

E. R. Reifenberg
Affiliation:
Trinity CollegeCambridge

Extract

1. In this paper I investigate the tangential properties of parametric surfaces, leading to the main result that the Lebesgue area is the Hausdorff two-dimensional measure of the set of points of the surface where an approximate tangential plane exists.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1952

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