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+Didn't get much done at all today! Had a short conversation with Josh after
+lunch about 1-forms and tangent bundles. Started reading "over a map" chapter,
+but didn't work through it.
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+Tomorrow planning to fly in the afternoon.
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+Read through Chapter 6 ("Over a Map"), but felt like I wasn't absorbing too
+much. Maybe not that bad of a problem at this point?
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+Took a look at "Visual Differential Geometry and Forms" (VDGF), and the
+definition of a 1-form was short and much more readable. I think that book is a
+good complement! Carroll's "Spacetime and Geometry" is also decent. VDGF led to
+a tangent to flip through Penrose's "The Road to Reality". Sort of surprising
+myself at level of interest in abstract geometry and physics... but need to
+focus back down on the plan for now.
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+The next chapter (7. Directional Derivatives) is particularly long, so probably
+won't finish it this week. Would also like to finish reading the intro/overview
+content in VDGF, and compare some of the definitions there against FDG.
+
+Started working through (short) exersize on paper, but should do it
+computationally.