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Div, grad, curl and all this
The title of this post is a nod to the excellent and well-known Div, grad, curl and all that by Harry Schey (and perhaps also to the lesser-known sequel to one of the more consoling histories of Great Britain), and the purpose … Continue reading
Posted in 3-manifolds, Riemannian geometry
Tagged curl, div, exposition, grad, Riemannian geometry, vector field
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Geometry and the imagination 