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If you’ve just completed an introductory course on differential geometry, you might be wondering where the geometry went. In most people’s experience, geometry is concerned with properties such as distances, lengths, angles, areas, volumes, and curvature. These concepts, however, are barely mentioned in typical beginning graduate courses in differential geometry; instead, such courses are concerned with smooth structures, flows, tensors, and differential forms.
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Lee, J.M. (1997). What is Curvature?. In: Riemannian Manifolds. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 176. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-22726-1_1
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