A pictorial introduction to differential geometry (2017)

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A pictorial introduction to differential geometry, showing how Maxwell's equations emerge from geometric concepts, based on a 2017 arXiv paper.

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# A pictorial introduction to differential geometry, leading to Maxwell's equations as three pictures
Source: [https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08492](https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08492)
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