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Intuition about covariant derivative/connections on real and complex manifolds

I have always found the motivation for connections as ``allowing us to differentiate vector fields or tensors by vector fields" outrageous -- but that's my own taste. Connections become appealing to m …
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Favorite popular math book

Title: The I Hate Mathematics! Book Author: Marilyn Burns Short Description: The google.books description is well written. A book for nonbelievers. I had this as a kid, and i remember its questions …