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Here here! Functions do not depend on your choice of coordinates, only the components of tensors do! I think this is why it’s important to keep covariance and contravariance in mind. While tensor(fields) do not depend on coordinates intrinsically, the way we represent them when doing calculations most certainly does, and this is usefully characterized by co/contravariance.


"Here here!" is indeed topological. "Hear, hear!", on the other hand, is conversational.


I love when grammatical mistakes become unintentional puns




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