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Hi all,
(Thank you for the continuing responses to my other questions...)
I am gaining more and more understanding of differential forms and differential geometry.
But now I must ask... Why the words?
I understand the exterior derivative, but why is it called "exterior?"
Ditto for CLOSED and EXACT forms: I understand the definition, but nothing in that definition informs me of why that word was chosen.
Could anyone elaborate, simply, on the reason for the words: exterior, closed, exact?
(Thank you for the continuing responses to my other questions...)
I am gaining more and more understanding of differential forms and differential geometry.
But now I must ask... Why the words?
I understand the exterior derivative, but why is it called "exterior?"
Ditto for CLOSED and EXACT forms: I understand the definition, but nothing in that definition informs me of why that word was chosen.
Could anyone elaborate, simply, on the reason for the words: exterior, closed, exact?