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In this chapter we introduce one of the fundamental ideas of this book, the differential one-form.

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Fortney, J.P. (2018). An Introduction to Differential Forms. In: A Visual Introduction to Differential Forms and Calculus on Manifolds. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96992-3_2

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