[teaching general relativity this morning]
STUDENT: Isn't there some standard, accepted notation for all this?
ME: 😭😭😭
STUDENT: Isn't there some standard, accepted notation for all this?
ME: 😭😭😭
“anyway here are three OTHER symbols that might be used for the covariant derivative, good luck”
“it’s okay though, they’re all just some variation on the letter d, just like the symbols for almost every other operator, vector, one-form, and derivative we’ve discussed so far”
“except that one, that one is a semicolon in a subscript, don’t ask”
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