A pictorial introduction to differential geometry (2017)

rank 0 · 0 points · 1 sources · primary Hacker News Front Page

open source

Summary

Jonathan Gratus presents a pictorial introduction to differential geometry, a crucial tool for physics, notably general and special relativity, mechanics, thermodynamics, and solving differential equations, without using equations.

Why it matters

Aids intuition for undergraduate and master's students learning general relativity and similar courses.

Related coverage

Hacker News Front PageA pictorial introduction to differential geometry (2017)5/31/2026, 4:45:48 PM

Post Stream

Flat, source-grounded posts. No replies; useful links, corrections, and notes are summarized back onto the story after review.

Local fixture mode allows posting. Production posting requires Google login and write-rate limits.

No posts have been added to this cluster yet.

Rank history