Reference Request for Solid Angles

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I'm looking for a reference that has a discussion of solid angles. Many facts about them are available in various places online, but I haven't had any luck finding a text that treats them. I might be barking up the wrong tree, but neither Do Carmo's Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces nor any of the volumes of Spivak's A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry (save a brief problem in volume I) covers them. Neither does, for example, Marsden and Tromba's Vector Calculus. Perhaps texts on mathematical physics would be worth consulting.

I would be grateful for any pointers!

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 18 '23 at 17:59

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You might look up references for spherical trigonometry. Here are a couple of books:

M'Clelland and Preston (1912), "A treatise on spherical trigonometry with applications to spherical geometry and numerous examples", Macmillan

Todhunter (1886), "Spherical trigonometry for the use of colleges and schools", Macmillan

answered Nov 18 '23 at 17:59

Bob Werner

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Also -- google books search (search restricted to before 1926, thus likely to be freely available) AND search for results at archive.org (many freely available and most others viewable) AND google scholar search. – Dave L. Renfro Nov 18 '23 at 18:30

Reference Request for Solid Angles

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