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From: grace@iitmax.IIT.EDU (Thom Grace)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: RE: Need an algorithm to calculate area of polygons
Keywords: Green's Theorem
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Date: 20 Oct 89 06:46:49 GMT
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In article <8115@microsoft.UUCP> David Levine cites Green's Theorem which
he contends "you can find in many mathematics books".  Well, my suboptimal
contribution to this discussion is to provide the references I have here at
hand to Green's Theorem: 

     Spivak, "Calculus On Manifolds", W.A. Benjamin, Inc., NY, 1965,
     ISBN 0-8053-9021-9, p. 134.  

     Churchill, Brown, and Verhey, "Complex Variables and Applications",
     Mc-Graw Hill, NY, 1974, ISBN 0-07-010855-2, p. 115.

Now I have a question for D. Levine: I know about Green's Theorem, and I 
know about Newell's Formula, yet I have never (formally) tried to connect 
the two.  So --- how do you do it???

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