Mathematics and Visualization Series Editors Gerald Farin Hans-Christian Hege David Hoffman Christopher R. Johnson Konrad Polthier Martin Rumpf Jean-Daniel Boissonnat Monique Teillaud Editors Effective Computational Geometry for Curves and Surfaces With 120 Figures and 1 Table ABC Jean-Daniel Boissonnat Monique Teillaud INRIA Sophia-Antipolis 2004 route des Lucioles B.P. 93 06902 Sophia-Antipolis, France E-mail:
[email protected] [email protected] Cover Illustration: Cover Image by Steve Oudot (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis) The standard left trefoil knot, represented as the intersection between two algebraic surfaces that are the images through a stereographic projection of two submanif