Covariant derivatives and connections in the UD calculus

bcbeckman · January 18, 2026, 7:24pm

bcbeckman · January 19, 2026, 1:35pm

Riemann is coming up in the next installment! After that will be some numerical sims of orbits around Schwarzschild black holes, including “stars” falling into them Those two notebooks are in prep now.

wolframcommunity · January 21, 2026, 5:21pm

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bcbeckman · January 26, 2026, 2:24am

The notebook below is a minor revision of this featured notebook. There are no material changes, just better presentation of prose separated from comments in the code.

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Covariant derivatives and connections in the UD calculus

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