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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?
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.
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