Christian Froeschlin napsal(a):
>>> <troll>
>>> Curl, divergence and similar operators are just properties of the
>>> differential form defined by physicists and engineers who do not 
>>> understand
>>> differential forms.
>>> </troll>
>>
>> Mathematicians can tell you how things should work,
>> engineers can tell you how things really do work.
>>
>>> But all this is somewhat advanced calculus. In France at least, it is 
>>> only
>>> taught to science students in college or similar level.
>>
>> Yeah, topology feels like graduate level math.
> 
> Trolling++: This is advanced calculus and differential geometry.
> Topology is much more beautiful, you get it after abstracting
> those things away which could be related to actual numbers ;)
do you mean things like genus or number of dimensions?

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