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Motivating definitions from differential geometry
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[QUOTE="mathwonk, post: 6041632, member: 13785"] I know only a little differential geometry, but if I wanted to study it with a view to understanding the constructions intuitively, I would consult works by Gauss (General Investigation of curved surfaces), Riemann (essay reproduced in Spivak vol. 2, chapter 4A), Spivak (chapters 3 and 4 of volume 2), Nikulin /Shafarevich (Geometry and Groups), and David Henderson (Differential Geometry, a geometric introduction). The main thing seems to me to be grasping curvature, first intuitively, then how it is expressed as a tensor. [/QUOTE]
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