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Tangent planes of a surface

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 3:03 pm
by Grigorios Kostakos
Let $S$ be a regular surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Prove that if all the tangent planes of the surface passing through the origin, then the Gaussian curvature $K$ of $S$ must be zero everywhere.