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Physics is naturally expressed in mathematical language. Students new to
the subject must simultaneously learn an idiomatic mathematical language
and the content that is expressed in that language. It is as if they were asked
to read Les Miserables while struggling with French grammar. This book offers
an innovative way to learn the differential geometry needed as a foundation for
a deep understanding of general relativity or quantum field theory as taught at
the college level.
The approach taken by the authors (and used in their classes at MIT for many
years) differs from the conventional one in several ways, including an emphasis
on the development of the covariant derivative and an av