Coordinate invariance: a manifesto: Revision history

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6 October 2024

  • curprev 01:4101:41, 6 October 2024Lfox talk contribsm 2,532 bytes +13 No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
  • curprev 01:3801:38, 6 October 2024Lfox talk contribs 2,519 bytes +2,519 Created page with "What ''is'' a coordinate system? It is a way of assigning numbers to any point in a given region. The point of a coordinate system is that it allows us to quantitatively describe what is happening to an extended object (at each point of the object). [TODO that second sentence under-sells the value of coordinate systems.] Traditionally, a coordinate system is conceived of as a map <math>R \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^n </math> from the region <math>R</math>, to tuples of <mat..." Tag: Visual edit