From 1c14de3bde5d7307311935d914d36ba3ff369b20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bryan Newbold Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 19:00:56 -0700 Subject: last thursday and today --- log/2022-09-29.md | 6 ++++++ log/2022-10-04.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 log/2022-09-29.md create mode 100644 log/2022-10-04.md (limited to 'log') diff --git a/log/2022-09-29.md b/log/2022-09-29.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..977e300 --- /dev/null +++ b/log/2022-09-29.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ + +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. + +Tomorrow planning to fly in the afternoon. diff --git a/log/2022-10-04.md b/log/2022-10-04.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8be5440 --- /dev/null +++ b/log/2022-10-04.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ + +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? + +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. + +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. -- cgit v1.2.3