Poles and Straight Lines on Surfaces

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Minoru Tanaka
Department of Mathematics, Tokai University, Japan

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There are open problems originated from classical differential geometry. In this note some interesting open problems will be introduced.


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Corresponding author: E-mail: m-tanaka@sm.u-tokai.ac.jp

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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2005)
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Original Research Articles

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