Posted: Mar 10, 2011 12:33 pm
Evolving wrote:
I once spent a semester (among other things) studying a slim volume called "Calculus on Manifolds", which started with that 19th century achievement, Stokes' Theorem, the high-water mark of calculus at the time, and by the time we got through to the final chapter, that theorem had become pretty much a trivial special case of the mathematical tools we had acquired during the course of the book.
Those would be ..... differential forms and associated stuff ? <sighs wistfully and wishes he'd gone academic>