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  2. Differential form - Wikipedia

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    A general 1-form is a linear combination of these differentials at every point on the manifold: + +, where the f k = f k (x 1, ... , x n) are functions of all the coordinates. A differential 1-form is integrated along an oriented curve as a line integral.

  3. One-form (differential geometry) - Wikipedia

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    In differential geometry, a one-form (or covector field) on a differentiable manifold is a differential form of degree one, that is, a smooth section of the cotangent bundle. [1] Equivalently, a one-form on a manifold is a smooth mapping of the total space of the tangent bundle of to whose restriction to each fibre is a linear functional on the ...

  4. Laws of Form - Wikipedia

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    Laws of Form (hereinafter LoF) is a book by G. Spencer-Brown, published in 1969, that straddles the boundary between mathematics and philosophy. LoF describes three distinct logical systems : The primary arithmetic (described in Chapter 4 of LoF ), whose models include Boolean arithmetic ;

  5. Tautological one-form - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the tautological one-form is a special 1-form defined on the cotangent bundle of a manifold. In physics , it is used to create a correspondence between the velocity of a point in a mechanical system and its momentum, thus providing a bridge between Lagrangian mechanics and Hamiltonian mechanics (on the manifold Q {\displaystyle ...

  6. Linear form - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a linear form (also known as a linear functional, [1] a one-form, or a covector) is a linear map [nb 1] from a vector space to its field of scalars (often, the real numbers or the complex numbers).

  7. Pullback (differential geometry) - Wikipedia

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    be a multilinear form on W (also known as a tensor – not to be confused with a tensor field – of rank (0, s), where s is the number of factors of W in the product). Then the pullback Φ ∗ F of F by Φ is a multilinear form on V defined by precomposing F with Φ. More precisely, given vectors v 1, v 2, ..., v s in V, Φ ∗ F is defined by ...

  8. Indeterminate form - Wikipedia

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    Indeterminate form is a mathematical expression that can obtain any value depending on circumstances. In calculus , it is usually possible to compute the limit of the sum, difference, product, quotient or power of two functions by taking the corresponding combination of the separate limits of each respective function.

  9. Mathematics, Form and Function - Wikipedia

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    Mathematics, Form and Function, a book published in 1986 by Springer-Verlag, is a survey of the whole of mathematics, including its origins and deep structure, by the American mathematician Saunders Mac Lane.