Covariant derivatives are hard
Posted on February 28th, 2022 by Gustavo Navarro
This last weekend I had a super good time with a friend, just spending a few hours figuring out some math from the physics behemoth “Gravity” by Misner, Wheeler and Thorne. I have some experience with general relativity and differential geometry, but I’ve never made it very far into the field, so we just opened the textbook, somewhere in Chapter 2, and looked in for entertainment:
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What the hell is a tensor anyways?
Posted on December 22nd, 2021 by Gustavo Navarro
As I’m studying more and more differential geometry and general relativity (and being the noob that I am), I have to go back to this definition over and over again, so I thought that writing it down for good can help me (and hopefully others) get a quick refresher into what is a Tensor anyways.
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